LEADER 04293nam 2200577 450 001 9910822627703321 005 20230803222447.0 010 $a1-62894-041-7 035 $a(CKB)2560000000148349 035 $a(EBL)1678726 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001181460 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12447349 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001181460 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11142541 035 $a(PQKB)11719720 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1678726 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1678726 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10859795 035 $a(OCoLC)878263478 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000148349 100 $a20140427h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGuide to the phantom Dark Age /$fEmmet Scott 210 1$aNew York :$cAlgora Publishing,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (190 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-62894-039-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aForeword; __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 327 $aThe 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 327 $aThe 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 327 $a__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 330 $aScott 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 606 $aMiddle Ages 606 $aHistory$xErrors, inventions, etc 615 0$aMiddle Ages. 615 0$aHistory$xErrors, inventions, etc. 676 $a940.1/2 700 $aScott$b Emmet$01661488 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822627703321 996 $aGuide to the phantom Dark Age$94017422 997 $aUNINA