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Tag Archives: The Dark Ages
journey to the dark past
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
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Tagged Edward Gibbon, George Macaulay Trevelyan, Jacques le Goff, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Medieval Civilization, Raoul Glaber chronicler, Sharan Newman, The Dark Ages, The Dark Ages food, The Dark Ages housing shelter
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fifty score years ago, our forebears…
Are we entering a new Dark Age? Is one at hand? We might well to look back to the last Dark Age, which beclouded Europe from the fall of Rome to the beginning of the brilliant Middle Age in, more … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayeaux Tapestry, Edward Gibbon, Frank Thadeusz, George Macaulay Trevelyan, Jacques le Goff, Limbourg Brothers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Professor Lynn White, Raoul Glaber chronicler, The Dark Ages, The Middle Ages
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1000 years whence
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… …Science as we know it, did not exist. The idea of experiment and discovery did … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbot Notker Balbulus, Abbot of Cluny Magilo, Bishop Adalberon of Reims, George Macaulay Trevelyan, Harley Psalter, Hatto I Archbishop of Mainz, Hucbald monk of St.-Amand, Limbourg Brothers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Madrid Skylitzes, Raoul Glaber chronicler, Saint Gall Switzerland, The Dark Ages, Utrech Psalter
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dark ages and rages and sages
A thousand years ago the “dark ages” were dark, but maybe not as dark as we imagine today. Certainly, our forebears themselves did not think so, and they were only half wrong… …In Latin, only a few love songs and … Continue reading
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Tagged Edward Gibbon, George Macaulay Trevelyan, Hatto I Archbishop of Mainz, Hrotswitha of Gandersheim, Hucbald monk of St.-Amand, jean fouquet, King Alfred ninth century, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Saint Dinstan famous organ, The Dark Ages, Umberto Eco
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when we were dark
The Dark Ages. At the time, our forebears did not think it was all that dark, and they were only half wrong… …The world of a thousand years ago, then, had its centers of devotion and learning, islands in an … Continue reading
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Tagged Bishop Adalberon of Reims, Carolingian book production, Edward Gibbon, England Winchester School, First Romanesque architecture, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ottonian architectural style, Pre-Romanesque architecture, The Dark Ages, The utrecht Psalter
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cluny and the gall chatter
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Look at two of the monasteries. First, Saint Gall in Switzerland, founded in the seventh century, and the home of a long line of learned and virtuous men. … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbot of Cluny, Abbot of Cluny Magilo, Book of Maccabees I, Edward Gibbon, Limbourg Brothers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Opus Dei, Pope Gregory VII, Saint Gall monastery, Saint Gall Switzerland, St. Odo Cluny, The Dark Ages, The utrecht Psalter
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deep in the past
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
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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
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way back when
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
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Tagged Edgar the Pacific, Hildegard Von Bingen, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Otto III Holy Roman Emperor, Otto the Great, Petrarch Italian scholar, Professor Lynn White, The Dark Age, The Dark Ages
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dark but still a few lights burning
A thousand years ago. One thousand years ago our forbears lived in the so called “Dark Age.” They themselves did not think it was dark, and they were only half wrong…. …That was all to the good, in the view … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlemagne, Church Calabria Papal States, Edgar the Pacific, Egbert Archbishop of Trier, Ethelred the Stupid, Ethelred the Unready, King Otto I Germany, Lothair King of France, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Otto the Great, Professor Lynn White, Spanish Beatus manuscripts, The Codex Egberti, The Dark Ages, The Saracens
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