Something Doesn’t Add Up About the Dark Ages

The show is on Spotify! 👉 https://open.spotify.com/show/7GlXSYMoOpcw41YGRCpjJB?si=cc2e479ee34d4167 Did the fall of Rome really plunge Europe into centuries of ignorance and decline? From remarkable medieval craftsmanship to voyages across the Atlantic, we explore what happened during the “Dark Ages”, who gave them that name, and why their version of history still shapes ours... Join my Substack, where the ideas go further than YouTube lets me take them: https://michaelbutton.substack.com/ Follow the show on Spotify! 👉 https://open.spotify.com/show/7GlXSYMoOpcw41YGRCpjJB?si=cc2e479ee34d4167 Let me know what you think in the comments, and thank you for watching!! Follow me on X: https://x.com/MichaelButtonX Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelbuttonx/ Sources: https://www.getty.edu/news/no-such-thing-as-the-dark-ages/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography) https://jonn.substack.com/p/some-notes-on-the-dark-ages-and-the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_Great https://historiamag.com/the-5th-century-the-fall-of-rome-the-birth-of-legends/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kells https://www.ocla.ox.ac.uk/byzantium-and-the-christian-east https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne https://www.history.org.uk/primary/resource/3865/anglo-saxons-a-brief-history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_settlement_of_North_America https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3621228/