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Historiography

the label for the post-Roman centuries as a time of cultural darkness, which Mommsen traced to Petrarch's humanist view of history.

In historiography, Dark Ages refers to the label for the post-Roman centuries as a time of cultural darkness, which Mommsen traced to Petrarch's humanist view of history. This meaning comes from Mommsen (1942) in Speculum.[1]

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Mommsen, T. E. (1942). Petrarch's Conception of the 'Dark Ages'. Speculum, 17(2), 226-242. https://doi.org/10.2307/2856364

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