The Dark Age

The historian of the early middle ageas paul freedman spoke a bit about this notion of the dark age. He referred to an incident in world war too where a british officer went under cover in rural crete during a world war two, and he was able to capture a germa general. And they went on to have a sort of conversation back and forth, reciting this poem by horace. Ah, that was something they could do because, as two educated persons in that civilization, they ah had access to that common body of knowledge. Well, naturally, that world has rapidly ended within the last 60 or so years, and there is nocommon body of knowledge coming