The Bright Ages (book review)

the not so “Dark Ages”

by Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry

New York: HarperCollins, 2021

Gabriele and Perry offer quite a few things you never knew about the so-called “Dark Ages.”

The Bright Ages lays out an alternative view: life went on after the “sack” of Rome in 410 CE.

Various regional rulers and peoples continued to call themselves Romans for hundreds of years.

There was some beauty in the “Dark Ages.”

Human frailties were in full force before, during, and after the “Dark Ages.”

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