Paperback, 246 pages
English language
Published Nov. 13, 1996 by Anchor Books, Doubleday.
How the Irish Saved Civilization
The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
4 stars
(3 reviews)
Subjects
- Learning and scholarship -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500
- Civilization, Classical -- Study and teaching -- Ireland
- Books -- Ireland -- History -- 400-1400
- Manuscripts -- Ireland -- History
- Monastic libraries -- Ireland
- Transmission of texts
- Scriptoria -- Ireland
- Ireland -- Civilization -- To 1172
- Europe -- Civilization -- Irish influences