Snyder, Christopher A. (1998). An Age of Tyrants: Britain and the Britons A.D. 400–600. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. str. xiii–xiv. ISBN0-271-01780-5.. In explaining his approach to writing the work, Snyder refers to the "so-called Dark Ages", noting that "Historians and archaeologists have never liked the label Dark Ages ... there are numerous indicators that these centuries were neither 'dark' nor 'barbarous' in comparison with other eras."
Verdun, Kathleen (2004). »Medievalism«. V Jordan, Chester William (ur.). Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Zv. Supplement 1. Charles Scribner. str. 389–397.; Same volume, Paul Freedman, "Medieval Studies", pp. 383–389.
Letters on Familiar Matters (Rerum familiarium libri), translated by Aldo S. Bernardo, 3 vols.' and Letters of Old Age (Rerum senilium libri), translated by Aldo S. Bernardo, Saul Levin & Reta A. Bernardo, 2 vols.
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Renaissance or Prenaissance, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 4, No. 1. (Jan. 1943), pp. 69–74; Theodor Ernst Mommsen, "Petrarch's Conception of the 'Dark Ages'" Speculum17.2 (April 1942: 226–242); JSTOR link to a collection of several letters in the same issue.
Raico, Ralph. »The European Miracle«. Arhivirano iz prvotnega spletišča dne 3. septembra 2011. Pridobljeno 14. avgusta 2011. "The stereotype of the Middle Ages as 'the Dark Ages' fostered by Renaissance humanists and Enlightenment philosophes has, of course, long since been abandoned by scholars."
This designation appears, for instance, in a recent reviewArhivirano 2012-10-25 na Wayback Machine. of Carol Quillen's Rereading the Renaissance.
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This designation appears, for instance, in a recent reviewArhivirano 2012-10-25 na Wayback Machine. of Carol Quillen's Rereading the Renaissance.
Raico, Ralph. »The European Miracle«. Arhivirano iz prvotnega spletišča dne 3. septembra 2011. Pridobljeno 14. avgusta 2011. "The stereotype of the Middle Ages as 'the Dark Ages' fostered by Renaissance humanists and Enlightenment philosophes has, of course, long since been abandoned by scholars."
In the Prose della volgar lingua, Bembo proposes Petrarch and Boccaccio as models of Italian style, while expressing reservations about emulating Dante's usage.
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Tedder, Henry Richard; Brown, James Duff (1911). »Libraries § Italy« . V Chisholm, Hugh (ur.). Enciklopedija Britannica (v angleščini). Zv. 16 (11. izd.). Cambridge University Press. str. 573.
