len wrote:
If you have not already read it Tim Cahill's book, "How the Irish Saved Civilization" was enjoyed very much by me. Basically its the story of how Irish monks preserved learning and books while the rest Europe was going down the toilet in the Middle Ages. The Irish's somewhat earthy and humane version of Christianity was something I remember. The title is a somewhat hyperbolic but maybe that is an Irish thing?I really liked that piece. I had an appreciation for the Irish monks and what they had done, and the book really filled out a lot of the spaces. It's unbelievable how close Western Civilization came, in spots, to dying out.
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big kahuna: Oct 9, 17 10:29