Brian Denley wrote:

Not just Islam. The Irish (of all people) had copied nearly everything they
could get their hands on from the Romans, from whom they learned to write.
Much of this information was saved in monasteries and, when bought back out
hundreds of years later, helped jump start civilization out of those dark
ages and into the renaissance. Kenneth Clark gives in his excellent
"Civilisation' a decription of how western knowlege and civilization hung by
a thread and was almost lost if not for the Irish.


I don't think they had the plagues in Ireland either. That helped a lot.
This is a good book concerning Ireland and saving of knowledge.



http://www.centuryone.com/1849-3.html



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