How The Irish Saved Civilization - Thomas Cahill

'Shamelessly engaging, effortlessly scholarly, utterly refreshing'Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark'A small treasure'New York Times 'This sweepingly confident overview is more entertainingly told than any previous account'Sunday TelegraphIreland played the central role in maintaining European culture when the dark ages settled on Europe in the fifth century: as Rome was sacked by Visigoths and its empire collapsed, Ireland became 'the isle of saints and scholars' that enabled the classical... Zobrazit více