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The Dark Ages is a term for the Early Middle Ages (c. 5th –10th centuries), or occasionally the entire Middle Ages (c. 5th –15th centuries), in Western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, which characterises it as marked by economic, intellectual, and cultural decline.
The same year, White Wolf released the first supplement for Vampire: The Dark Ages [1] titled Constantinople by Night, a 128-page softcover book designed by Philippe Boulle, Joshua Mosqueria-Asheim, and Lucien Soulban, with illustrations by Michael Gaydos, Eric Lacombe, Chuck Regan, Andrew Ritchie, and Andrew Trabbold, and cover art by William ...
A 1899 illustration of a vampire, by Ernst Stöhr.In Vampire: The Dark Ages, players take the roles of vampires and other supernatural beings.. Vampire: The Dark Ages is a tabletop role-playing game in the World of Darkness series, where players take the roles of vampires and other supernatural beings in 1197–1242.
The concept of the Dark Ages had been in use, but by the 18th century, it tended to be confined to the earlier part of the period. The earliest entry for a capitalized "Dark Ages" in the Oxford English Dictionary is a reference in Henry Thomas Buckle's History of Civilization in England in 1857. [14]
Book of Storyteller Secrets is a supplement that serves as a guide to the Dark Ages setting, and provides tips for Storytellers running the game. [1] The book also lists the rules for crossovers between various role-playing games in the World of Darkness series, and describes the Dauntains Psychiatric Clinic.
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
Christian notions of heaven and hell inherit this conception, as do the "dark angels" vs. the unfallen angels, often with aureola , in Christian mythology. Day and night are personified as deities in various mythologies (e.g. Norse Dagr and Nótt, Greek Hemera and Nyx, et cetera). Yin-yang
The Dark Ages: An Age of Light is a four-part documentary television series written, directed, and presented by the British art critic Waldemar Januszczak looking at the art and architecture of the so-called Dark Ages (i.e. Early Middle Ages) that shows it to be