(24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)(THE GREAT COURSES) (Audio mp3) undefined<!-- undefinedaoeui undefined--> undefined    

We often call them the "Dark Ages," the era which spanned the decline and fall of Rome’s western empire and lingered for centuries, a time when the Ancient World was ending and Europe had seemingly vanished into ignorance and shadow, its literacy and urban life declining, its isolation from the rest of the world increasing.