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I'm glad you've come back to join us in this next series looking into the popes and Christian church during the late antiquity early medieval periods.

For some, the title of the series The Dark Ages might seem a little controversial.

The use of the word Dark Ages for the 250 to 300 years or so after the fall of the Western Roman Empire is not often used academically

anymore. It's generally not very useful to attach arbitrary names to create arbitrary

historical epochs. Sure, the term Dark Ages isn't very useful because it gives many connotations that aren't

completely correct, especially if you look at the balance of the greater European and Middle

Eastern history. Overall, things didn't bottom out completely in places like the Eastern

part of the Roman Empire, the Persian, Sasanian Empire, Egypt, etc.

The more commonly used name for this era of history these days is the early medieval period or early Middle Ages.

But the early middle of what?

We're back to the idea that the roughly 1,000 years between the fall of

the Roman Empire and the West and the Renaissance in Italy was just a transitory time, a bullpen of

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