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Historiography of the Middle Ages
- MedievalismIn the 1330s, Petrarch declared that European culture had stagnated and drifted into what he called the "Dark Ages". He argued this decline began with the…
- Dark Ages (historiography)In the 1330s, an Italian scholar named Petrarch looked back at centuries of history and saw only shadows. He wrote that amidst errors there shone forth men…