What you think you know about the “Dark Ages” is probably wrong. An early 14th century painting shows Pontius Pilate, the Roman official who ordered Jesus’ crucifixion, washing his hands.

The outdated concept of the European “Dark Ages” masks the parallel and interconnected developments across medieval Africa. ... Massachusetts and Roxbury Presbyterian Church in Roxbury, Mass.

The “Dark Ages” is a misnomer. The period between Antiquity and the Renaissance, known as the Middle Ages, saw amazing advances in art, science, and philosophy. Around 1300, scholars in Europe ...

According to this view, during the Middle Ages the Church was corrupted and the arts and literature entered a dark age which, for ... This historiographical view spread rapidly through Europe.

The Dark Ages. A new danger threatened when the Empire’s resistance to the barbarian hordes from the East finally crumbled. In the fifth century the Goths sacked the Eternal City; Visigoths ...

Whereas many historians trace the modern state’s origins to a later era (broadly speaking, 1500 to 1800), she writes: “The European state was born in the Middle Ages . . . The medieval church ...