Whilst the use of the phrase "Dark Ages" in English seems to date from the Eighteenth Century as a pejorative reference to the centuries following the fall of the Western Empire, its use by academics in the sense of an obscure subject of study is presumably more recent.
I wonder if anyone can pinpoint the first use of the phrase in this latter sense. I have some dim recollection of St Paul being paraphrased and the period being described as one that can only be glimpsed [i]through a glass, darkly.[/i]
Spod
I wonder if anyone can pinpoint the first use of the phrase in this latter sense. I have some dim recollection of St Paul being paraphrased and the period being described as one that can only be glimpsed [i]through a glass, darkly.[/i]
Spod
