Twelve kinds of taste
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Learning and scholarship, Classical Civilization, Monastic libraries, Scriptoria
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 utterly lost were it not for the holy men and women of unconquered Ireland.
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Resolved, plot-driven, epic and cool.
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On Open Library, 8 have read it and 44 want to.
“On the last, cold day of December in the dying year we count as 406, the river Rhine froze solid, providing the natural bridge that hundreds of thousands of hungry men, women, and children had been waiting for.”
Thomas Cahill is an American scholar and writer. He is best known for The Hinges of History series, a prospective seven-volume series in which the author recounts formative moments in Western civilization. - Wikipedia
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If you loved this book, the film, the television, the music, the game.
