Question

Does “intellectual depression” refer to the people of the “Dark Ages” or historical knowledge of the time?

Does this definition resemble more the original meaning of the “Dark Ages” or the meaning it gained over time?

Answer 1

“The Dark Ages is a term applied in its widest sense to that period of intellectual depression in the history of Europe from the establishment of the barbarian supremacy in the fifth century (400 CE) to the revival of learning at about the beginning of the fifteenth (1400 CE), thus nearly corresponding in extent with the Middle Ages.”