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How the Irish saved civilization : the untold story of Ireland's heroic role from the fall of Rome to the rise of medieval Europe  Cover Image Book Book

How the Irish saved civilization : the untold story of Ireland's heroic role from the fall of Rome to the rise of medieval Europe / Thomas Cahill.

Cahill, Thomas (Author).

Summary:

A look at how the Irish monasteries preserved all of the classical manuscripts that are now available while the rest of Europe was destroying them.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0385418493 (pb.)
  • Physical Description: x, 246 p. : ill., maps.
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 1995.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"An Anchor book."
"Originally published by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday in 1995."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject: 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.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Stroud Branch 941.501 Cah 31681000887182 NONFIC Available -

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650 0. ‡aTransmission of texts.
650 0. ‡aScriptoria ‡zIreland.
651 0. ‡aIreland ‡xCivilization ‡yTo 1172.
651 0. ‡aEurope ‡xCivilization ‡xIrish influences.
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