Guide to the phantom Dark Age / / Emmet Scott

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822627703321
• Autore: Scott Emmet
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Algora Publishing, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-62894-041-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.1/2
• Soggetti: Middle Ages; History - Errors, inventions, etc
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword; __RefHeading__3_902682167; Introduction; __RefHeading__5_902682167; Chapter 1: The Dark Age; Origin and Development of the Dark Age Idea; __RefHeading__7_902682167; __RefHeading__9_902682167; What Caused the Fall of Rome?; __RefHeading__11_902682167; The Revival of Classical Civilization in the Sixth Century; __RefHeading__13_902682167; The Revisionist Rejection of the Dark Age Idea; __RefHeading__15_902682167; __RefHeading__17_902682167; Chapter 2: The Archaeological Problem; The Archaeological Hiatus in Europe; __RefHeading__19_902682167; __RefHeading__21_902682167; The Archaeological Hiatus in Byzantium and the Islamic World__RefHeading__23_902682167; Retarded Echoes; __RefHeading__25_902682167; Chapter 3: A Mythical Three Centuries; A Radical Solution; __RefHeading__27_902682167; __RefHeading__29_902682167; Origin of the Anno Domini Calendar; __RefHeading__31_902682167; Why Distort History?; __RefHeading__33_902682167; What about the Dark Age Chronicles?; __RefHeading__35_902682167; __RefHeading__37_902682167; Chapter 4: The Problem of Islamic History; The Islamic Calendar; __RefHeading__39_902682167; __RefHeading__41_902682167; The Archeology of Mesopotamia and Iran__RefHeading__43_902682167; The Chronology of Islam's Early Expansion; __RefHeading__45_902682167; Other Question Marks ; about Early Islam; __RefHeading__47_902682167; Towards a Solution; __RefHeading__49_902682167; Chapter 5: Reconstructing the Seventh Century; The Seventh Century Renaissance; __RefHeading__51_902682167; __RefHeading__53_902682167; Reconnecting the Strands; __RefHeading__55_902682167; Seventh Century Merovingians and Tenth Century Carolingians; __RefHeading__57_902682167; Spain in the Seventh and Tenth Centuries; __RefHeading__59_902682167Byzantium in the Seventh and Tenth Centuries; __RefHeading__61_902682167; Chapter 6: A Strange New World; Consequences; __RefHeading__63_902682167; __RefHeading__65_902682167; Europe and the East; __RefHeading__67_902682167; Appendix: The Astronomical Evidence; __RefHeading__69_902682167; Radiocarbon Dating and Dendrochronology; __RefHeading__71_902682167; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Scott confronts conventional historians and looks at the evidence, archaeological and textual, for the proposition that three centuries, roughly between 615 and 915, never existed and are ""phantom"" years. The author shows in detail how no archaeology exists for these three centuries, and that the material remains of the seventh century closely resemble those of the tenth, and lie directly beneath them. This is the first book on this topic in the English language, though Heribert Illig's books on the same topic, 'Das erfundene Mittelalter' and 'Wer hat an der Uhr Gedreht?' have been best sell