Life and Thought in the Middle AgesLife and Thought in the Middle Ages was first published in 1967. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The period of the early Middle Ages from the fourth to the eleventh centuriesused to be commonly called "the dark ages." Now that term has been discarded by scholars, who reject its implications as