How the Irish Saved Civilisation

by Thomas Cahill
Category: "World History - Cultural"
Pages:256
Year of Publication:1995
Date Read:01/26/2003
Notes:Subtitle: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe.

Cahill takes us to the "island of saints and scholars," the Ireland of St. Patrick and the Book of Kells. Here, far from the barbarian despoliation of the continent, monks and scribes laboriously, lovingly, even playfully preserved the West's written treasury. When stability returned in Europe, these Irish scholars were instrumental in spreading learning, becoming not only the conservators of civilization, but also the shapers of the medieval mind, putting their unique stamp on Western culture.
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Enjoyable because it gave me a lot of information on a subject I knew nothing about while at the same time not giving me too much information on a subject I wasn't terribly interested in.
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