In article > ,
Dave Smith > wrote:

> On 04/07/2012 4:57 PM, David Friedman wrote:
> > In article >,
> > dsi1 > wrote:

> > Medieval historians have pretty much abandoned the term "dark ages" as
> > misleading.
> >
> Not really. They just shifted the "dark ages" to apply more to the early
> medieval period.

Well, let's break 'er down. There should be paleomedieval, medieval and
neomedieval. I can't believe that historians haven't picked up on this.
It's so much more descriptive than early, high and late. Was everybody
stoned in the high medieval? They ought have been to get through it.

leo