<Tr> <Td> 11th </Td> <Td> 139--151 </Td> <Td> 13 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 12th </Td> <Td> 152--191 </Td> <Td> 40 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 13th </Td> <Td> 192--217 </Td> <Td> 26 </Td> </Tr> <P> "The new age (saeculum) which was beginning, for its harshness and barrenness of good could well be called iron, for its baseness and abounding evil leaden, and moreover for its lack of writers (inopia scriptorum) dark (obscurum)". </P>

What was life like in europe during the dark ages