A German systems analyst who asserts that the 'Dark Ages' did not exist. The 300 years between 614 and 911 are an invention.We would then actually be living in the 18th century not the 21st. Prabably not true, but fun to think about and speculate on why the powers that be (Catholic Church) would insert 3 nonexistant centuries.
If this were true, Hasting would have taken place in 766. The new World discovered in 1192 or thereabouts. It would explain the lack of historical and archaelogical eveidence between the fall of Rome in the 5th century and the High Middle ages. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/volatile/Niemitz-1997.pdf