How many centuries was the 'dark ages' no looking?

Question

I had 6 as the answer, but the courteous
replies are more correct. "Dark Ages"
is better discribed using more current
reviews and names.
I am foolishly bitter that the Twentieth Century didn't happen in the Eleventh
Century.

Answer 1

like 6 i think

Answer 2

Did you know that most historians of this period don't use this term AT ALL?! The whole thing's a misnomer, based on biases of a later era and generally (and ironically) ignorant of the period they were speaking about, and often very anti-Church (or simply anti-Catholic).

Whatever "Dark Age(s)" there were, began with the collapse of Rome (AD 476) and lasted at MOST three centuries, but even that's excessive. The 10 centuries idea of popular thought it totally bogus, ignoring the tremendous progress of this era, esp. the 'High Middle Ages' (1000-1300), during which, for example, the university system was founded and the modern scientific method began to take shape.

Simple example of the bogus stories about "unenlightened" medieval/'dark ages' thinking is the common notion that Columbus went against church leaders --he thinking the world round, they thinking it flat. Not hardly! They had all known for two millenia that the world was round -- the difference was that they thought the world was LARGER (and hence the distance to Asia) LONGER than Columbus did.... and by the way, they were right!

Answer 3

I would say 5 centuries. The Dark Ages are more oftenly called Late Antiquity in recent years.The Early Middle Ages started about A.D. 1000.

Answer 4

It would probably depend on what authority you referenced.

It would certainly begin with the death of the last Roman emperor around 425 A.D.; and lasted probably up until the beginning of the Renaissance: sometime after 1400. And I didn't "look". So, somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 centuries.

Wotan

Answer 5

It depends on who you ask, but it lasted from about 500-1500 give or take a century