The Dark Ages
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The Dark Ages
| Full title | The Dark Ages, 476-918 |
|---|---|
| Author | Charles Oman |
| Published | 1893 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Charles Oman’s Victorian survey of the four and a half centuries from the fall of the Western Empire to the end of the Carolingians — worth reading as much for what a nineteenth-century historian did with thin sources as for the period itself. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @typesfast — an answer to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” in his thread, June 2025. The full list of answers is on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
About this edition
Oman’s volume in the Periods of European History series.
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
What links here
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