Pocket • 1996 • Engelsk

How the Irish Saved Civilization

Name: How the Irish Saved Civilization
SKU: 9780340637876
Availability: OutOfStock
ISBN: 9780340637876

Av Thomas Cahill

0 vurderinger • 0.0 av 5

‌
‌

‌

‌
‌

‌

‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌

‌

Om boken

Ireland 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 and religious heritage to be saved. In his compelling and entertaining narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Irish monks and scrines copied the mauscripts of both pagan and Christian writers, including Homer and Aristotle, while lib...Vis mer

Om boken

ISBN

9780340637876

Forlag

Sceptre

Publiseringsår

1996

Språk

Engelsk

Originaltittel

How the Irish Saved Civilization

Format

Pocket

Frakt og retur

Frakt

Brukte bøker sendes av selgeren. Forventet leveringstid etter pakken er sendt er 2-4 dager.

Returer

Kontakt selgeren etter levering.

Omtaler · 0

0 vurderinger • 0.0 av 5

Du vil kanskje også like

Papyrus The Invention of Books in the Ancient World

Irene Vallejo

The Map of Knowledge How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found

Violet Moller

The shortest history of Europe

The Ancient Celts, Second Edition

University of Oxford) Cunliffe Barry (Emeritus Professor of European Archaeology

Abandoned Civilisations

Kieron Connolly

The Celts

Kevin Windle

Celtic Mythology Tales of Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes

Philip Freeman

Medieval Europe

Chris Wickham

Europe and the Islamic World

John Tolan

The Ancient Paths

Graham Robb

The Discovery of Middle Earth Mapping The Lost World Of The Celts

Graham Robb

Europe

The Netherlands) Rietbergen Peter (Radboud University Nijmegen

Scribes and Scholars

L. D. Reynolds

Civilization

Niall Ferguson

Civilization The West and the Rest

Niall Ferguson

Europe Between the Oceans

Sir Barry Cunliffe

The Viking Age Ireland and the West

Donnchadh Ó Corráin

A Brief Guide to Classical Civilization

Stephen Kershaw

The Story of Ireland

Brendan O'Brien

Tales of the Elders of Ireland

Ann Dooley

The Fall of Rome

Bryan Ward-Perkins

Europe after Rome

Julia Smith

Lady Gregory's complete Irish Mythology

Lady Gregory

Devil in green

The vikings

Magnus Magnusson

Christ in Celtic Christianity Britain and Ireland from the Fifth to the Tenth Century

Michael W. Herren

Treasures of the National Museum of Ireland Irish Antiquities

National Museum of Ireland

Civilization in the West

Mark Kishlansky

Celtic Gods and Heroes

Marie-Louise Sjoestedt

Slik reddet irene siviliasjonen

Thomas Cahill

Ancient Ireland

Iain Zaczek

The European Iron Age

John Collis

Celtic Mythology The Myths and Legends of the Celtic World

Arthur Cotterell

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe

Thomas Cahill

In Search of Ancient Rome

Claude Moatti

A History of Ireland

Plantagenet Somerset Fry

The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe

George Holmes

History of Rome

Michael Grant

Europe in the middle ages

Robert S.Hoyt