Why do we call them the "Dark Ages"? - Medieval DOCUMENTARY

Go to establishedtitles.com/Kings and help support the channel. They are now running a massive Black Friday Sale, plus 10% off on any purchase with code Kings. Thanks to Established Titles for sponsoring this video!

There was Dark Age, then there was Feudal Age, then Castle Age and then Imperial Age where you can research Chemistry

I had a Western Civilizations teacher who spent the whole semester denigrating the Middle Ages and praising literally any other part of the world. Wish I could show him this.

And I thought they were dark because there was a shortage of wax for candles.

Ive always considered the Dark Ages to occur from the fall of Rome (late 400s) to the rise of and reign Charlemagne (late 700s early 800s). The term dark is in reference to the lack of literature and culture coming out of this time. Also it was a time of great disunity, migration, and war.

I get paid (not very much) to answer questions on Quora and one question I was "requested" to answer was "how were people able to light their homes in the dark ages?" I still can't think of something sufficiently sarcastic enough.

Petrarch lived in a rather grim century for Europe (1300s) plague, war etc. Historian Barbara Tuchman covered it well in her book "A Distant Mirror. - The Calamitous 14th Century" No wonder he was depressed. Also "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" reinforced the concept of the Dark Ages for the present day😀

The 17th-18th century sure had some high horses they were riding on.

Can we all appreciate the fact that Kings and Generals never disappointed us with his content. 👏

People assume ancient works were absent in Europe during the so-called "Dark Ages" when it reality in the West most Latin literature was preserved by monastic monks and in the east Greek literature by Byzantine scribes.

Do you know why they were called the "DARK AGES"? It's because there were so many KNIGHTS

What a terrific exploration of the Dark Ages! Thanks.🙏

Well it was definitely dark around the year 536 ad when that volcano caused massive amounts of death by blocking the sun. There’s a reason it’s called the worst year to be alive.

I think you're confusing "tempestas", a word that meant "time" in latin but could also be used to mean "weather/storm" as having the latter meaning in this case. “Media tempestas” just means "middle time", or “season”. In modern Italian also the word "tempo" means both time and weather, with its derivatives "temporale" etc meaning storm or weather more specifically.

Dark Ages is just a period of absense of an large and powerful Empire on central Europe who make possible to establish and sustain complex relations between individuals and groups such science and trade

You know I've been waiting for you guys to talk about this, I hope you can make more of these types of videos.

Well I think we can agree that the sequal of the "Dark Age" began in late 2019

I would rate the year 536 to 560 as the Dark Ages because of the volcanic eruptions in 536 and 547 that caused the "Little Ice Age"

Amazing, stunning, excellent!! Are the best words that I could find to describe how incredibly well done, researched, and written this video was! Big congratulations again to the team. The editors/animators did an incredible work to synchronise with the script. By the way a special acknowledge to the researcher and writer, wow!! Looking forward for more videos written/researched by Riccardo! Thanks again K&G for your outstanding job, today I'll learnt a lot and debunked some wrong ideas that I had about the period!

This kinda ties in to how Carl Sagan lied about the library of Alexandria and how the modern Cosmos series still relies on these misconceptions as the main pillar of the documentary.