Dark Ages

dark Ages dark ages English Alternative forms singular en Dark Age plural en dark Ages dark ages darke ages obsolete except archaic Etymology The phrase appears in writing of the English Reformation by Richard Sibbes (1620) and by George Abbot (1624), the archbishop of Canterbury. Both authors use it to refer to the period of papal supremacy before the Reformation. The earliest citation in Oxford English Dictionary is dated 1687. Use is specific to English therefore not likely to be from Latin. Pronunciation en /ˈdɑːˌkeɪd͡ʒɪz/ Proper noun Dark Ages 1 en see usage notes The period of European history encompassing (roughly) 476–1000 . en Early Middle Ages en December 2001 w:Gene Wolfe w:David Pringle The Best Introduction to the Mountains Interzone (magazine) Interzone https://ttapress.com/interzone 0264-3596 174 https://archive.org/details/interzone-174-2001-12-bogof-39/page/49 49 There is one very real sense in which the Dark Ages were the brightest of times, and it is this: that they were times of defined and definite duties and freedoms. en Ancient Greece The Greek Dark Ages (c. 1100–750 ). The dark ages of Cambodia (c. 1450–1863). The dark ages of Laos (c. 1707–1893). en astronomy The Chronology_of_the_universe#The_Dark_Ages_and_large-scale_structure_emergence Dark Ages, 380 thousand to about 1 billion years after the Big Bang. en figuratively Any relatively primitive period of time. en Steven Davis Connectionism: Theory and Practice 1992 Oxford University Press https://books.google.com/books?id=kRQAPtV0ONIC&lpg=PA84&dq=%22connectionism%22&pg=PA84#v=onepage&q&f=false 978-0-19-536035-6 84 It is clear that many linguists view connectionism as a revival of the radical empiricist approach that dominated the dark ages in psychology—the behaviourist era. en March 6, 2000 Network World 17 10 49 Yes, DSL is a better, faster and less expensive way to access the Internet. Unfortunately, it's saddled with back-office systems that belong in the Dark Ages and politics that may require regulatory oversight. en 2001 0-375-50578-4 Lawrence Lessig The future of ideas: the fate of the commons in a connected world 104 http://www.the-future-of-ideas.com/download/lessig_FOI.pdf Put yourself back in the dark ages, the time before the Internet took off–say, the 1970s–and ask: What was the environment for creativity then? https://web.archive.org/web/20130329125937/http://www.the-future-of-ideas.com/download/lessig_FOI.pdf 29 March 2013 en w:BioWare Mass Effect: Andromeda Science Fiction Redwood City Electronic Arts 2017 PC Angara: Lost Colony Worlds Codex entry 1261299044 The Scourge disaster sent angaran civilization into a dark age. Records of their golden era of technological advancement and proliferation through space only survived as oral history, making it difficult to separate truth from legend. Nevertheless, angara believe they had colonized numerous planets across the cluster before the Scourge's devastation left them cut off from each other for centuries. en 14 June 2019 w:Taylor Swift; w:Joel Little w:You Need to Calm Down Lover (album) Lover Taylor Swift https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkk9gvTmCXY Sunshine on the street at the parade / But you would rather be in the dark ages / Making that sign / Must've taken all night Usage notes For the period of European history, academic historians now prefer the term en Early Middle Ages. Translations historic period Arabic: ar اَلْعُصُورُ الْمُظْلِمَةُ French: fr siècles obscurs German: de Dunkle Jahrhunderte, de finsteres Mittelalter n das finstere Mittelalter Hindi: hi अंधकार काल m Hungarian: hu sötét középkor Ido: io tenebro-epoko Indonesian: id Zaman Kegelapan Japanese: ja 暗黒時代 あんこくじだい, ankoku jidai Korean: ko 암흑기(暗黑期), ko 암흑시대(暗黑時代) Latin: la saeculum obscurum Malay: ms Zaman Kelam Polish: pl wieki ciemne m-p Portuguese: pt Idade das Trevas f Scottish Gaelic: gd Linntean Dorcha m-p f-p Na Lintean Dorcha Spanish: es Edad Oscura f Tibetan: bo མུན་པའི་བསྐལ་པ, bo དུས་སྙིགས Further reading Dark a. · 13.c yes III 34 3 dark ages, a term sometimes applied to the period of the Middle Ages to mark the intellectual darkness characteristic of the time en Historical periods Time