How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise...
- ISBN-10
- 0340637862
- ISBN-13
- 9780340637869
- Series
- How the Irish Saved Civilization
- Category
- Books
- Pages
- 246
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Author
- Thomas Cahill
Description
Account of how Irish scribes and clerics saved many classical texts of Western culture during the fall of the Roman Empire
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- 2011-09-01
- 256 pages
- Paperback
- Hachette UK
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