Razorcake
One Punk’s Guide to “The Dark Ages” by Billups Allen
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Originally appeared in Razorcake #111 Aug./Sept. 2019
Much like the term “new wave,” serious people will not acknowledge your discussion of “The Dark Ages” without trying to convince you not to use the term. It’s hard to ignore the period of roughly four hundred years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire when very little progress was made in science and literature. People struggled year-round just to feed themselves. If you weren’t royalty or one of the very few who had money, raw survival was your main concern.
