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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ancientnoob, post: 1700138, member: 44140&quot;]I agree to some extent. (I must admit you know more than I on this subject). I would think that Huge territorial losses, a losing war against Persia, the disappearance of silver coinage and the interruption of trade with Africa and the Mid- far east, along with the fall out of the plague of Justinian that devastated the population of the world with Europe being hard hit. All would constitute a Period of Enlightenment&nbsp; - I just cant see that. It all seems pretty dark and miserable to me. Considering that the plague would return ever generation until about 750. Yikes! Again things look pretty dark. There was no one in Europe making large silver coins featuring 3 languages, that put the Byzantines to shame- eh?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Its from a little later of a period but I would recommend a very interesting book</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="2">A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age</font></p><p>by William Manchester </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I remember one section in particular that said, something to the effect that most people did not even have names!! That blew my mind. Thats got to be pretty dang dark, eh?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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