Dark Ages
Dark Ages or Dark Age may refer to: == History and sociology == Dark Ages (historiography), the use of the term Dark Ages colloquially and by some historians. Early Middle Ages (5th–10th centuries), the centuries after the fall of the Western Roman Empire Saeculum obscurum ("dark age/century"), a period in the history of the papacy during the first two-thirds of the 10th century Byzantine Dark Ages (7th–8th centuries), period of large-scale transformation, but obscure due to lack of sources, in Byzantine history List of common misconceptions about the Middle Ages § History of the "Dark Ages" misconception Irish Dark Age, a period of apparent economic and cultural stagnation in late pre-historic Ireland, lasting from c.