Summary: Summary of Isaac Asimov's, "The Dark Ages" (ePub)

Isaac Asimov combined a prodigious mind , with an unquenchable thirst for learning, and a flowing and untiring pen. His encyclopaedic knowledge centers in mankind , its history and the history of its discovery's. It is this approach , which makes his books on science so entertaining, as they describe the history of scientific discovery, as well as the discoveries themselves. This is done in a straigthforward way, helping the reader easily grasp the subject matter. Russian born, since early childhood he lived and was educated in New York , graduating in biochemistry from Columbia University in 1.939, when he was barely 19 years old. He became popular, (and rich), thanks to his science fiction books, (over fifty titles, many best sellers), which, while entertaining, gave him a somewhat frivolous image which berated his enromous intelectual capacity. He published a series of 14 history books , such as the Roman Republic, The Shaping of England, The Shaping of France, The Birth of the United Sattes, etc., all of which are highly erudite, and yet very entertaining. This is Asimov's great gift, he is never boring, however dry and dreary the subject matter of his book might seem at first sight. The Dark Ages describes the formation and initial history of the nations of central and south Western Europe , which rose from the Frankish Empire, which in turn took up, after a few centuries, the space left by the fall of the Roman Western Empire, in year 466. It opens with Clovis, King of the Ripuarian Franks, a tribal nation, that went from being a minor tribe in the northwest of France , to become lords and masters of the lands which today, are occupied by France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland and Italy. A new Empire which reached its peak in year 800 under Charles the Great, whose death inaugurated a fraticidal struggle that would lead to the formation of germanic Austrasia and the romanic Neustria, ancestor kingdoms of todays Germany Holland and Austria and of

Introduction SUMMARY4 End of the Roman Empire Italy 490- 523, the Ostrogoth Kingdom Spain 476 -711, the Visigoth Kingdom Gaul 476- 486, Gaul, Franks, Burgundians, and Visigoths The Frankish Kingdom Clovis 486-511 Rome and Byzanthium Theodorich 490- 523 Byzanthium, 527- 565, Justinianus The Frankish Kingdom (2) Clothar I, 525- 596 Neustria and Austrasia, 596- 632 The Visigoth Kingdom in Spain, 500- 711 The Visigoths conquer the whole Peninsula The Merovingian Dynasty, the Do Nothing KingsThe Frankish Kingdom (3) Charles Martel, 718- 741 Pepin the Short, 718- 741 From the Atlantic to the Danube, 768-812 The Treaty of Verdun ,843. The Birth of Two Nations The Eastern, Middle, and Western Empires, 864- 877 The Western Frankish Kingdom becomes France, 936 The Eastern Frankish Kingdom becomes Germany, 919 The Kingdom of Germany The Kingdom of France France, Germany, Britain, and Italy Othon III

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