Citations:Dark Ages


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- Everything that we can think of in modern poetry (except always the survivals and revivals of Teutonic alliterative verse, and some few other antiquities) is related to the French and Provençal literature of the year 1100 as it is not related to anything in the Dark Ages — the earlier Middle Age.


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- The Dark Ages in the history of literature are distinctly a period: they have a definite end, whatever their beginning may have been.


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- The Dark Ages in their more limited meaning, and for the editorial purposes of this Series, are the centuries of the barbarian migration, before the establishment of the Romance literatures, or of the kind of civilisation that is implied in them.


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- In Latin, which is the principal language of the Dark Ages, there is no such decisive limit,— indeed there is no limit at all to the Latin of these times.


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- The Latin literature of the Dark Ages has not a definite character of its own, in the same way as the old Teutonic poetry. That body of poetry belongs properly to the centuries from the sixth to the eleventh. The Latin literature of the Dark Ages is not their exclusive property; it begins before them and is continued after them; its period is a much longer one, a period which at the lowest reckoning includes the whole of the Middle Age in the old wide sense of the term, down to the Revival of Learning. Even this is too narrow, for the Latin literature of the Middle Ages is in many things conservative, and it is difficult to stop in tracing it back to its sources: many of its favourite ideas and principles are those of Cicero, and many of them were in his time far from new; and at the other end of the history there may be found a similar difficulty when things supposed to be peculiarly mediæval show themselves proof against the Renaissance, surviving quite happily in the minds and writings of humanist reformers. The German literature of the Dark Ages makes one group of writings with a life and character of its own; the Latin literature is merely a section, with an arbitrary date to mark the dividing-line.


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- The significant distinction for the Dark Ages is not between Latin and vernacular utterance, but between Latin and barbarian ideas.


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- Greek in the Dark Ages has influence upon the West for the most part indirectly: either through its old-established partnership in Latin culture, or in ways not literary at all, by means of travellers, pilots, and traders; so that what comes through is generally either ancient, if there is any scholarship in it, or unscholarly, if it is new.


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- The Arabic literature that was produced in the Dark Ages is not related to the West in any literary manner. The Arabians give scientific matter, and they give the subjects of stories, but their own literature is something apart. It was “ not destined to be ours,” though the student of heroic poetry may turn for a moment from the themes of Attila or Sigfred to admire the temper of the Arabian Dark Ages —“ the Ignorance ”— before the chivalrous imagination of their earlier poets was transformed by the False Prophet and his polygamous methodism.


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- The Normans had more writers and monks to record the history of their times. We are no longer ‘in the dark’ so much. We’ve left the Dark Ages and entered the Later Middle Ages.


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- Very broadly and diffusely, the end of a global classical antiquity was shaped in some measure by a climatic global Dark Age running from roughly AD 400 to AD 900. This reversal was coherent in many parts of the world, but it did not have the reach and consequences of the two Hallstatt minimum/Siberian High epochs that bracketed both classical antiquity and the Middle Ages. Rather than a strong Siberian High at work, these climatic Dark Ages were marked in a cold northern hemisphere by a round of North Atlantic ice rafting, and by ENSO variation in the Pacific tilting toward the El Niño mode, with erratic floods and droughts along the Andean coast.