[William Cloud Hicklin]

steeped in the history of Dark Age England

I take exception to the phrase, 'history' and "Dark Ages' being a contradiction in terms. The Dark Ages are "dark" precisely because there are no surviving histories of them.


If you mean the Middle Ages, please don't call them the Dark Ages. The span of the Dark Ages varies from author to author and place to place, but the usual convention runs from the sack of Rome and the Rescript of Honorius in 410 until the coronation of Charlemagne in 800.