Tag Archives: Sharan Newman

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

journey to the dark past

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Dave

A thousand years ago our forebears lived in a “dark age.” They themselves did not think it was dark and they were only half wrong. To those who think we are entering a new dark age… …Food varied with the … Continue reading →