Saeculum obscurum (Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈsɛː.ku.lu.m obsˈkuː.rum], "the dark age/century"), also known as the Pornocracy or the Rule of the Harlots...

theory Strauss–Howe generational theory Saeculum obscurum Dunning, Susan Bilynskyj (November 2017). "Saeculum". Oxford Classical Dictionary. Vol. 1. doi:10...

understanding). The phrase Dark Age(s) itself derives from the Latin saeculum obscurum, originally applied by Caesar Baronius in 1602 when he referred to...

Papal States from 30 October 942 to his death. He ruled during the Saeculum obscurum. He was also erroneously called Martin III (Martinus III) leading...

Spoleto, his pontificate occurred during the period known as the Saeculum obscurum. Agapetus was born to a Roman father (a descendant of Consul Anicius...

Marozia, his pontificate occurred during the period known as the Saeculum obscurum. Stephen was a Roman by birth, the son of Germanic (Goth) Theodemundus/Theudemund...

His brief pontificate occurred at the end of a period known as the Saeculum obscurum. Benedict was the son of a Roman called John, and was born and raised...

from 14 July 939 to his death. His pontificate occurred during the Saeculum obscurum, when the power of popes was diminished by the ambitious counts of...

his death. His pontificate occurred during the period known as the Saeculum obscurum. Leo VI was born into a Roman family, and his father was Christophorus...

Look up pornocracy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Saeculum obscurum is a period in the history of the papacy often referred to as the "Pornocracy"...

neighboring sovereigns was replaced by powerful Roman families during the saeculum obscurum, the Crescentii era, and the Tusculan Papacy. From 1048 to 1257, the...

I, Leo VIII's pontificate occurred after the period known as the saeculum obscurum. Born in Rome in the region around the Clivus Argentarius, Leo came...

brother Alberic II. His pontificate occurred during the period known as Saeculum obscurum. John was the son of Marozia, the most powerful woman in Rome and...

murdered. John’s pontificate occurred during the period known as the Saeculum obscurum. John X, whose father’s name was also John, was born at Tossignano...

this time was in a period of decline, in retrospect known as the saeculum obscurum ("Dark Age") or "pornocracy" ("rule of harlots"), a state of affairs...

retain influence in the emerging Holy Roman Empire, and during the saeculum obscurum, the population of Rome fell to as low as 30,000 inhabitants. Following...

February 904. He was pope immediately before the period known as the Saeculum obscurum, when popes wielded little temporal authority. Leo V was born at a...

descendant of Theophylact I, Count of Tusculum. Historians use the term Saeculum obscurum to describe the period when the Papacy was under the direct control...

"obscurity" in Italian history during the 9th to 11th centuries, the saeculum obscurum or "Dark Age" of the Roman papacy as seen from the perspective of...

been: Ioannes, son of Marozia, who became Pope John XI during the Saeculum obscurum Gabriele Condulmer who became Pope Eugene IV Giovanni Morone - played...

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the Annales, Baronio coined the term "Dark Age" in the Latin form saeculum obscurum, to refer to the period between the end of the Carolingian Empire...

Papacy (493–537) Byzantine Papacy (537–752) Frankish Papacy (756–857) Saeculum obscurum (904–964) Crescentii era (974–1012) High and Late Middle Ages Tusculan...

during an obscure period in papal and Roman history, the so-called Saeculum obscurum (904–964). According to the Liber pontificalis, Lando was born in...

States 44 / 51 Subject and later the sovereign of the Papal States. "Saeculum obscurum" begins. The first pope to be depicted with the Papal Tiara. 120 14...

mobile game Fate/Grand Order. Legends surrounding the papacy Marozia Saeculum obscurum Theodora (senatrix) The High Priestess the span is given as 855–857;...

aristocratic family, the Theophylacti. This period was later dubbed the Saeculum obscurum ("dark age"), and sometimes as the "rule by harlots". In practice...

centuries), the centuries after the fall of the Western Roman Empire Saeculum obscurum ("dark age/century"), a period in the history of the papacy during...

may have involved an antipope. Additionally, a few popes during the saeculum obscurum were "deposed", meaning driven from office by force. The history and...

historian Caesar Baronius in his Annales Ecclesiastici to call it the Saeculum obscurum, or dark century. Similarly 19th-century Protestant historians saw...