Citations:Middle Ages

English citations of Middle Ages and Middle Age

• 1818, Henry Hallam, View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, third edition, volume II, London: John Murray, published 1822, chapter vi: “History of the Greeks and Saracens.”, page 172, footnote †:

    † Several very recent publications contain interesting details on Saracen literature ; Berington’s Literary History of the Middle Ages, Mills’s History of Mohammedanism, chap. vi. Turner’s History ot England, vol. i. Harris’s Philological Arrangements is perhaps a book better known ; and though it has since been much excelled, was one of the first contributions, in our own language, to this department, in which a great deal yet remains for the oriental scholars of Europe. Casiri’s admirable catalogue of Arabic MSS. in the Escurial ought before this to have been followed up by a more accurate examination of their contents than it was possible for him to give. But sound literature and the Escurial ! — what jarring ideas !

• 2014, John L. Brooke, “The Global Dark and Middle Ages, AD 542–1350” (chapter 9, pages 350–392), in Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A Rough Journey (Studies in Environment and History), New York: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 351:

  Climate and disease made Brown’s Late Antiquity a tough time in both hemispheres, perhaps a “Dark Age.” The climatic Middle Ages also have some global coherence, with an early Middle Age running from 900–1275 seeing an optimum in some places, in others quite the reverse, followed by a late Middle Age running to 1550 and encompassing the entering phases of the Little Ice Age.

• ibidem:

  Very broadly and diffusely, the end of a global classical antiquity was shaped in some measure by a climatic global Dark Age running from roughly AD 400 to AD 900. This reversal was coherent in many parts of the world, but it did not have the reach and consequences of the two Hallstatt minimum/Siberian High epochs that bracketed both classical antiquity and the Middle Ages. Rather than a strong Siberian High at work, these climatic Dark Ages were marked in a cold northern hemisphere by a round of North Atlantic ice rafting, and by ENSO variation in the Pacific tilting toward the El Niño mode, with erratic floods and droughts along the Andean coast.