The Dark Ages - A VTuber History Lecture

Here is the lecture on the origins of the "Dark Ages'", and why Historians don't like using it! Apologies for a few of the technical issues (no bgm/my microphone kinda peaking a bit!), I hope you enjoy! Bibliography: Frank Abbott 1897. 'Petrarch's Letters to Cicero' The Sewanee Review. Martin Albrow 1997. The global age: state and society beyond modernity. Arun Bala and Prasenjit Duara 2016. The Bright Dark Ages : Comparative and Connective Perspectives. Morris Bishop 1963. Petrarch and his world. Robert Bartlett 2001. Medieval Panorama. John Blair, Stephen Rippon, Christopher Smart 2020. Planning in the Early Medieval Landscape. Peter Brown 1972. The World of Late Antiquity. Peter Brown 1978. The Making of Late Antiquity. Peter Brown 2010. The Rise of Western Christendom. Henry Thomas Buckle 1857. History of Civilization in England. Eltjo Buringh, Jan Luiten van Zanden 2009. 'Charting the "Rise of the West": Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe, A Long-Term Perspective from the Sixth through Eighteenth Centuries"' The Journal of Economic History. John Cannon and Ralph Griffiths 2000. The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy. Ernst Cassirer, Francis R. Johnson, Paul Oskar Kristeller, Dean P. Lockwood and Lynn Thorndike 1943. 'Some Remarks on the Question of the Originality of the Renaissance' Journal of the History of Ideas. Albert C. Clark 1921. The Reappearance of the Classics. Phillip Dialeader 2001. The High Middle Ages. The Teaching Company. Michael J. Decker 2016. The Byzantine Dark Ages. John C. Dwyer 1998. Church History: Twenty Centuries of Catholic Christianity. Martin Eisner 2014. 'In the Labyrinth of the Library: Petrarch’s Cicero, Dante’s Virgil, and the Historiography of the Renaissance' Renaissance Quarterly. Andrew B. R. Elliott 2017. Medievalism, Politics and Mass Media: Appropriating the Middle Ages in the Twenty-First Century. Richard Fletcher 1997. The Barbarian Conversion. James Franklin 1982. The Renaissance Myth. Matthew Gabriele 2021. The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe. Kyle Harper 2017. The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire. James Hankins 2019. Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy. Peter Heather 2009. Barbarians and Empire: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe. Peter Heather 2023. Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, 300-1300. William J. Kennedy 2004. The Site of Petrarchism Early Modern National Sentiment in Italy, France, and England. Paulina Kewes 2006. The Uses of History in Early Modern England. Paul Oskar Kristeller 1965. Renaissance Thought II: Papers on Humanism and the Arts. Robert F. Leighton 1890. 'The Medicean Mss. of Cicero's Letters' Transactions of the American Philological Association. David C. Lindberg 2003. The Medieval Church Encounters the Classical Tradition: Saint Augustine, Roger Bacon, and the Handmaiden Metaphor. Theodore E. Mommsen 1942. Petrarch's Conception of the Dark Ages. Rudolf Pfeiffer 1949. History of Classical Scholarship 1300–1850. M. R. Rambaran-Olm 2010. Dark Ages. Bard Thompson 1996. Humanists and Reformers: A History of the Renaissance and Reformation. Peter S. Wells 2008. Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered. Chris Wickham 2007. The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000. Chris Wickham 2007. Framing the Early Middle Ages. Chris Wickham 2004. The Mediterranean around 800: On the Brink of the Second Trade Cycle. Ann Williams, Alfred P. Smyth, D. P. Kirby 1991. A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain: England, Scotland, and Wales, C. 500-c. 1050. Howard Williams 2021. Digging into the Dark Ages: Early Medieval Fake Histories and How to Combat Them.