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Re:Is it time to return to the medieval way of life on colle... by NickPollard on Friday January 28, 2011 @06:19AM (#2151477)
Isn't a lot of modern academic opinion turning against the idea of any kind of significant 'dark age' actually having occurred in Europe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages

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Re:Is it time to return to the medieval way of life on colle... by arethuza on Friday January 28, 2011 @08:07AM (#2151645)
They seem to be avoiding the term "Dark Age" but there is no doubt that there was a huge collapse in the infrastructure of civil society and technology after the Western Empire ended.

Note that there was also an earlier Bronze Age "Dark Age" in Eastern Europe:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age_collapse

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