Eugen Weber clearly believes “Dark Ages” is an accurate term to describe the years 500 and 950 A.D. of Western civilization’s history. His reasoning is extremely simple. These centuries were Dark Ages because, he says, “We don’t know much about it,” and, “it was dark and bloody” (Weber). In spite of his claim that little is known about the period, he presents a great deal of information about the years following the fracturing of the Roman Empire and Charlemagne’s crowning.
Today’s historians have largely replaced Dark Ages with the term Middle Ages. Anthropology Professor Peter Wells ...
