Dark Ages

Dark Ages or Dark Age may refer to:

History and sociology

* Dark Ages (historiography), the use of the term ''Dark Ages'' by historians and lay people
**Early Middle Ages (5th–10th centuries), the centuries after the fall of the Western Roman Empire
***''Saeculum obscurum'' ("dark age/century"), a period in the history of the papacy during the first two-thirds of the 10th century
**Byzantine Dark Ages (7th–8th centuries), period of large-scale transformation but obscure due to lack of sources in Byzantine history
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*Irish Dark Age, a period of apparent economic and cultural stagnation in late pre-historic Ireland, lasting from c. 100 BC to c. AD 300
* Parthian Dark Age, a period of three decades in the history of Parthian Empire
*Societal collapse, a situation in which a society collapses
** Late Bronze Age collapse (c. 1200 BC–1150 BC)
***Greek Dark Ages (c. 1100 BC–750 BC), a period in the history of ancient Greece and Anatolia after the Late Bronze Age collapse
*Dark ages of Khmer/Cambodia
**Post-Angkor period (1431–1863)
**Cambodian genocide (1975–1979), the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodian people by the Khmer Rouge
*Digital dark age, a future time when it might not be possible to read historical digital documents

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

* ''Dark Age'' (film), a 1987 Australian film directed by Arch Nicholson
* ''Dark Ages'' (TV series), a 1999 British sitcom
* '' The Dark Ages: An Age of Light'', a 2012 British documentary television series
* '' Miracle Workers: Dark Ages'', the 2020 season of ''Miracle Workers''
* "The Dark Age" (''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''), a 1997 television episode
* "The Dark Age" (''Bungo Stray Dogs''), a 2016 television episode
* "The Dark Age" (''Lighthouse''), a 2023 talk show episode
* "The Dark Ages" (''Roseanne''), a 1992 television episode

Games

* ''Dark Ages'' (1991 video game), a platform game by Apogee Software
* ''Dark Ages'' (1999 video game), an MMORPG by KRU Interactive
* Dark Age (collectible card game), a 1996 collectible card game
* ''Dark Ages'', a 2012 expansion for the deck-building card game ''Dominion''
* '' Doom: The Dark Ages'', an upcoming video game

Literature

* ''Dark Age'' (novel), a 2019 novel by Pierce Brown
* ''The Dark Age'' (series), a 2002–2005 novel trilogy by Mark Chadbourn
* Dark Age of Comic Books (1986–late 1990s), a period in the American comics industry
* ''The Dark Age'', a four-book maxiseries of the comics series ''Astro City''

Music

* Dark Age (band), a German metal band 1995–2013

Albums

* ''Dark Ages'' (album), by Soulfly, or the title song, 2005
* ''The Dark Ages'', an EP by Andrea Parker, 2001
* ''The Dark Ages'', an EP Bedhead, 1996
* Little Dark Age by MGMT

Songs

* "Dark Age" (song), by the Hippos, 1988
* "Dark Ages", by Jethro Tull from ''Stormwatch'', 1979
* "Dark Ages", by NoMeansNo from ''Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed'', 1988
* "Dark Ages", by Scar the Martyr from ''Scar the Martyr'', 2013
* "Dark Ages", by Yngwie Malmsteen from ''Trilogy'', 1986

Other uses

* Dark Ages (cosmology), in Big Bang cosmology, a period ending roughly 150 million to 800 million years after the Big Bang, after which stars began to form
* "Dark Era", a hypothetical age of the universe in the far future

See also

*Golden Age (disambiguation)
* Middle Ages (disambiguation)

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