How the Irish Saved Civilisation: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe by Thomas Cahill
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How the Irish Saved Civilisation
How the Irish Saved Civilisation
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Describes how Irish monks and scribes maintained the record of Western civilization by copying the manuscripts of both pagan and Christian writers, including Homer, Virgil, Plato and Aristotle, while libraries on the continent were lost forever.
How the Irish Saved Civilisation Summary
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GOR003206821
9780340637869
0340637862
How the Irish Saved Civilisation: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe by Thomas Cahill
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Hodder Arnold
1995-03-02
224
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