What do you mean by term the Dark Ages mean? In what methods were the Dark Ages dark? In what means was this society inadvertently preparing to emerge in modernity through preservation of classical literature and scripture? What particular influence did Ireland have in world which would emerge from Dark Ages? Let the literature produced in early Old English, Germanic language with Celtic imagination, expressed in Arthurian legend. What do these breathtaking legends of knights and honor have to do with modern sense of ethics? What is meant by chivalric code?