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 * https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/middle-ages-in-modern-culture-9781788314787/ .. should be open access after Oct 2 202
 * https://archive.org/details/sim_historian_autumn-1992_55_1/page/183/mode/2up?q=dark+ages
 * https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/5-myths-about-the-middle-ages/2016/09/22/e56c4150-7f50-11e6-9070-5c4905bf40dc_story.html
 * https://www.history.com/news/6-reasons-the-dark-ages-werent-so-dark
 * "Among the more popular myths about the “Dark Ages” is the idea that the medieval Christian church suppressed.." Pruitt as a degree in History and American Studies from Princeton University.
 * https://archive.org/details/barbarianstoange00well info scattered throughout lots of good quotes by Peter S. Wells


 * https://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-xpm-2010-11-27-mc-moravian-medieval-20101127-story.html Dark Ages in popular culture


 * https://www.britannica.com/event/Middle-Ages Dark Ages synonymous with Middle Ages


 * https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/02/the-middle-ages-were-pretty-interesting-actually - "Most people, if they think of the Middle Ages at all, think of them as the “Dark Ages,” the long stretch of obscure barbarism between the glory that was Rome and the other glory that was the Renaissance. But that is false"


 * https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/Conferences-and-CFPs/5057844 "Toxic Appropriations of the Middle Ages in Modern Culture "


 * https://www1.chester.ac.uk/events/digging-dark-ages-early-medieval-fake-histories-and-how-combat-them "This talk will explore how stereotypes and popular perceptions of the Early Middle Ages (5th–11th centuries AD)–popularly still-considered the European ‘Dark Ages’–plague our popular culture. "
 * https://vimeo.com/565501778


 * https://www.google.com/books/edition/Medievalism_Politics_and_Mass_Media/97M4DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
 * Tons of good stuff here on modern usages, but not visible. Even few pages that are have worthy additions.


 * https://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/DMS/15FAD760F54B4078B908568946F55657/9781789695274-sample.pdf - Howard Williams paper awesome stuff

popular authors

 * Popular history authors
 * https://archive.org/details/insearchofdarkag00wood_0 Micahel Wood 1991 - uses term throughout with no irony or quotes or explanation

In a "groundbreaking" book by Andrew B. R. Elliott (2017), he systematically examined how various terms for the Middle Ages (including 'Dark Ages') are used in popular culture, and found "by far" the most meaning were to "signify a general sense of backwardness or lack of technological sophistication", particularly noting how the term 'Dark Ages' has become entrenched in daily and political discourse.<89> He notes the extent to which "Middle Ages/Dark Ages have come to be synonymous with backwardness, religious persecution, witch hunts and scientific ignorance".<91> He says modern usage of 'Dark Ages' frames the period less as a historical period than a trope contrasting modernity with a "pre-rational [Renaissance] chaos.. to flaunt modernity's own sophistication... as a myth of progress."

Andrew B. R. Elliott echoes this view in his chapter "The Dark Ages and the myth of progress".