[Cicero]

I have mixed feelings about Cahill. The Irish really did save civilization, but there are severe problems with his book because he has little or no understanding of religion. He is tone deaf to Christianity. And it was the Irish and Anglo-Saxon missionaries to England, the Carolingian court, and Germany, who did it.

I would recommend "The Anglo-Saxon Missionaries in Germany," edited by C. H. Talbott, which tells the story through the early lives of SS. Wilibrord, Boniface, et al.

[dr_who_2]

and the arabs who saved all those ancient writings.