How the Irish saved civilization : the untold story of Ireland's heroic role from the fall of Rome to the rise of medieval Europe /
From the fall of Rome to the rise of Charlemagne - the "dark ages" - learning, scholarship, and culture disappeared from the European continent. The great heritage of western civilization - from the Greek and Roman classics to Jewish and Christian works - would have been u...
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New York :
Anchor Books, Doubleday,
[1996]
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