Editing Historical revisionism (section)

===Dark Ages===
As non-[[Latin]] texts, such as [[Welsh language|Welsh]], [[Gaelic languages|Gaelic]] and the [[Old Norse|Norse]] [[saga]]s have been analysed and added to the canon of knowledge about the period, and as much more [[archaeological]] evidence has come to light, the period known as the [[Dark Ages (historiography)|Dark Ages]] has narrowed to the point that many historians no longer believe that such a term is useful. Moreover, the term ''dark'' implies less of a void of culture and law but more a lack of many [[source text]]s in Mainland Europe. Many modern scholars who study the era tend to avoid the term altogether for its [[negative connotation]]s and find it misleading and inaccurate for any part of the Middle Ages.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Snyder|first=Christopher A.|author-link=Christopher Snyder (historian)|year=1998|title=An Age of Tyrants: Britain and the Britons A.D. 400–600|publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press|publication-date=1998|location=University Park|pages=xiii–xiv|isbn=0-271-01780-5}}, for example. The work contains over 100 pages of footnoted citations to source material and bibliographic references (pp. 263–387). In explaining his approach to writing the work, he refers to the "so-called Dark Ages" and notes, "Historians and archaeologists have never liked the label Dark Ages... there are numerous indicators that these centuries were neither "dark" nor "barbarous" in comparison with other eras."</ref><ref name=dmas>[[William Chester Jordan|Jordan, Chester William]] (2004). ''[[Dictionary of the Middle Ages]]'', Supplement 1. Verdun, Kathleen, "Medievalism" pp. 389–397. Sections 'Victorian Medievalism', 'Nineteenth-Century Europe', 'Medievalism in America 1500–1900', 'The 20th Century'. Same volume, [[Paul Freedman|Freedman, Paul]], "Medieval Studies", pp. 383–389.</ref>