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[Jenny A]

The definition of the Dark Ages that commingles the term with the Middle Ages is almost as outdated as breakthroughs from the Middle Ages itself and is based upon piss poor historical recounting from the Italians.

Hardly, the Middle Ages and the Dark Ages used to be synonymous. Professors fond of the age resolutely stuck to Middle Ages until virtually no one said Dark Ages any more. There is a group that labels the early Middle Ages as the Dark Ages, but that usually runs from about 400 to about 1000 CE.

The point regardless of what you call the era is that innovation ground to an almost halt until the 1500s.

By the way "Dark" in this context originally referred to the paucity of written records, not the times.