Europe, December 1st, 1996
How the Irish Saved Civilization is a hugely entertaining book, tracing history from the Fall of Rome in approximately 410 A.D. to the rise of Charlemagne some four centuries later. Cahill comes to his point early on, "Without the Mission of the Irish Monks...the word that came after them would have been an entirely different one - a word without books." Immediately the reader is hooked, for anyone even just browsing must have some appreciation for the importance of literature. Setting the scene well, the focus is initially on the rise of the Roman Empire, with special emphasis on the importa...
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