""The Dark Ages: Essays Illustrating The State Of Religion And Literature In The Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh And Twelfth Centuries"" is a collection of essays written by Samuel Roffey Maitland, a British historian and legal scholar, originally published in 1845. The book explores the historical period known as the Dark Ages, which spans from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD to the beginning of the High Middle Ages in the 11th century. Maitland's...