it's amazing how a word like the Dark Ages can conjure up
so many images. In Europe it was "dark" indeed, other
than the monks copying book after book. I think of the
Book of Kells in Ireland, or the movie with Sean Connery
and Christian Slater: Eco's The Name of the Rose.
And in the East, Avicenna and medicine. Interesting in
light of the changes taking place there.

----please, draw me a sheep----