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CAHILL, Thomas How the Irish Saved Civilization : The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe. 1st pr. in dj.
Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, New York, 1995, ISBN:0385418485
CAHILL, Thomas. How the Irish Saved Civilization : The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe . New York: Nan A. Talese, an imprint of Doubleday, (1995). First Printing of the First Edition (with number line). Pp. [i]-x,[1]-246. 8vo, grey cloth spine with pale grey paper covered boards, silver lettering to spine. The first printing of Cahill's highly stimulating tome about the preservation of classical philosophy and writings as well as early religious texts by Irish monasteries during the Dark Ages. Includes an in-depth examination of the "Ireland of Saint Patrick and the Book of Kells, far from the barbarian despoliation of the continent", where "monks and scribes laboriously, lovingly, even playfully preserved the west's written treasury". - from the dj. Vg indj. 150.00
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150.00 CDN
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