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Rent How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
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Narrator: Donal Donnelly
Format: Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Random House
Published: Oct 2003
Genre: History - General
Retail Price: $34.95
Discs: 7
Synopsis
Mr. Cahill is a man of learning himself, and his writing is in the great Irish tradition he describes; lyrical, playful, penetrating and serious, but never too serious....Mr. Cahill's book will remain an entirely engaging, delectable voyage into the distant past, a small treasure.
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Reviews
This may be an excellent book on CD for all I know but honestly, I didn't give it a chance. I found myself bored from the start. zzzzzzzzzzz Returned before I finished the first disc.
Cahill has only one point to make: Irish monasteries developed a talent for copying texts and did so during the early Dark Ages, thereby saving many classical texts from oblivion. There. That's the book. But Cahill needs to pad it out, so he spends many, Many pages telling us what is in the books copied by the monks and why those texts were worth saving. So if you want to hear a treatise on classical and early Christian philosophy, you may find this less tedious than I did.