How the Irish Saved Civilization Book Reviews

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Entertaining Read. This book wasn’t meant to be an exhaustive - or even overly serious - take on medieval history or the value of the Irish. Instead, it’s an author in love with his subject, whipping through the waning of the classical world. Does he overstate his case? Of course, but it’s still an entertaining read!

Celtic stars. How did the Irish save civilization? Monks like Columella and Columbanus in the sixth century, as the Huns and Avars poured across the Rhine and Danube sacking all libraries and nascent monasteries in Western Europe, these Irish Christian monks were thoroughly but idiosyncratically preserving not only the Judeo-Christian texts and teachings in their monasteries but pagan or Greco-Roman learning as well and were sharing all texts with believers and non-believers; the Irish monasteries of the Early Middle Ages seemed like university towns or Buddhist retreats. Once the barbarian raids had settled a monk like Columbanus is credited with starting perhaps as many as 60 monasteries in Gaul and Lombardy. Thr organization of these monasteries were far less hierarchic than later Benedictine ones like Monte Cassino were. In fact, Cahill argues that the Irish offered a different conception of Christianity.

How the Irish Saved Civilization. This book has impacted me. It has helped me put context to my faith and to realize how little I am in the grand scheme of things and yet see how Christ can use me not inspire of that but purely because of that! Awesome book. MUST READ

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