Donahue's essay “Beowulf and Christian Tradition: A Reconsideration from a Celtic Stance” in Traditio 21 (1965), Fordham University's journal of “Studies in Ancient and Medieval Thought and Religion,” is so discerning and generous that ...
But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization. BONUS MATERIAL: This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Thomas Cahill's Heretics and Heroes.
Account of how Irish scribes and clerics saved many classical texts of Western culture during the fall of the Roman Empire
In his compelling and entertaining narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Irish monks and scrines copied the mauscripts of both pagan and Christian writers, including Homer and Aristotle, while libraries on the continent were lost ...
How the Irish Saved Civilization
During the Dark Ages, learning, scholarship, and culture disappeared from the European continent.
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise...
Reveals the development of Western culture and history