The Siege of Christendom

  The Siege of Christendom

In the formation of Christendom, its economic and social structure, under the influence of the Catholic Church, the next period after the first foundational one (of five hundred years) is another, also roughly five hundred years; from approximately the year 500 to about the year 1000.

It is a period of five centuries-the 6th,7th,8th,9th and 10th-which have been commonly called the “The Dark Ages,” but which may more properly be called “The Siege of Christendom.”

From The Foundation of Christendom by H. Belloc,