I finished Harry #7 last night, and am now onto this. It’s *so* interesting!An excerpt f
I finished Harry #7 last night, and am now onto this. It’s *so* interesting! An excerpt from the introduction: “…as the Roman Empire fell, as all through Europe matted, unwashed barbarians descended on the Roman cities, looting artefacts and burning books, the Irish, who were just learning to read and write, took up the great labour of copying all of western literature – everything they could lay their hands on. These scribes then served as conduits through which the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian cultures were transmitted to the tribes of Europe, newly-settled amid the rubble and ruined vineyards of the civilisation they had overwhelmed. "Without this Service of the Scribes, everything that happened subsequently would have been unthinkable. Without the Mission of the Irish Monks, who single-handedly refounded European civilisation throughout the continent in the bays and valleys of their exile, the world that came after them would’ve been entirely different one – a world without books. And our own world would not have come to be.” (It keeps being good, too. If you like late Roman and early medieval history then I reckon this book is for you!) #howtheirishsavedcivilization -- source link
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