Snyder, Christopher A.An Age of Tyrants: Britain and the Britons A.D. 400–600. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1998: xiii–xiv1998. ISBN 0-271-01780-5., for example. This work contains over 100 pages of footnoted citations to source material and bibliographic references (pp. 263–387). In explaining his approach to writing the work, he 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."
