Tag Archives: Petrarch Italian scholar

from the beginning: happy discomfort

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Dave

If the prophets of despair speak sooth, we might do well to look back to the last Dark Age, which beclouded Europe from the fall of Rome, whenever that was, to the beginning of the brilliant Middle Age in, more … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Barbara Tuchman, Charles Hastings, George Macaulay Trevelyan, Jacques le Goff, Jessica Lutkin, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Petrarch Italian scholar, Professor Lynn White, Raoul Glaber chronicler, Sharan Newman, The Dark Ages, The Gospels of Otto III | Leave a comment

deep in the past

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Dave

Deep in the past on the village green. One thousand years ago our forebears lived in a “Dark Age.” They themselves did not think it was dark, and they were only half wrong… Economically, the mark of tenth century country … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Dark Ages Economic life, Edgar the Pacific, Feudalism, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Otto I Germany, Otto III Holy Roman Emperor, Otto the Great, Petrarch Italian scholar, Professor Lynn White, Ronald Numbers Cambridge, The Dark Ages | Leave a comment

way back when

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Dave

A thousand years ago our forebears lived in what was known as the “Dark Age.” They themselves did not think it was dark, and they were only half wrong… A good share of the fragmented world was precariously ordered by … Continue reading →