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Tag Archives: Professor Lynn White
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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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 markĀ 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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