It might depend what you mean by seeming more remote! I will give a couple of reasons why it probably doesn't seem so to me.
The first, as you say, is that archaeologists and historians have really stopped using the term - except to show that it wasn't a dark age in any cultural sense. One example out of many might be the trade between Anglo-Saxon communities in England and the lands of Byzantium, in the form of ornate, probably ceremonial buckets; see here for more.
The other is vaguer and is what I might call a feeling for the period in popular culture today. Quite a lot of the enthusiasm for the period is, I think, the way that its history has flowed recently into such things as computer games and even films. Recall the recent film of Beowulf.
Of course, medievalism and interest in it stems from the 19th c and before and the enduring mythology surrounding the Arthurian legends shows how pervasive the "Dark Ages" have been on their influence on our culture today, if refracted through the concerns of people in the past.
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It might depend what you mean by seeming more remote! I will give a couple of reasons why it probably doesn't seem so to me.
The first, as you say, is that archaeologists and historians have really stopped using the term - except to show that it wasn't a dark age in any cultural sense. One example out of many might be the trade between Anglo-Saxon communities in England and the lands of Byzantium, in the form of ornate, probably ceremonial buckets; see here for more.
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/archive/timeteamli...
The other is vaguer and is what I might call a feeling for the period in popular culture today. Quite a lot of the enthusiasm for the period is, I think, the way that its history has flowed recently into such things as computer games and even films. Recall the recent film of Beowulf.
Of course, medievalism and interest in it stems from the 19th c and before and the enduring mythology surrounding the Arthurian legends shows how pervasive the "Dark Ages" have been on their influence on our culture today, if refracted through the concerns of people in the past.