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The Irish contribution to the Dark Ages. Knowledge of Christianity, literature, and art, proved to be economic centers of Ireland.
Title: The Irish contribution to the Dark Ages. Knowledge of Christianity, literature, and art, proved to be economic centers of Ireland.
Category: History / World History
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The Irish contribution to the Dark Ages. Knowledge of Christianity, literature, and art, proved to be economic centers of Ireland.
The Influence of the Irish during the Dark Ages Little is thought of the Irish throughout the Dark Ages and the Middle Ages, when it is largely thanks to them that Europe came there at all! For "as the Roman lands went from peace to chaos, the land of Ireland was rushing even more rapidly from chaos to peace." (pg. 124, T. Cahill) The Dark Ages are known as 'dark' for the simple reason that the …showed first 75 words of 2307 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2307 total…said that "no court was deemed worthy unless it had an Irish scholar in it" (*). In these ways, the Irish have been greatly underestimated. Ireland, in its own small way, was able to make their presence felt in Europe, as it had never been so before, nor would it again. The tiny island that Rome had forgotten, would turn out to be the saviour of the knowledge and art of the world Rome left behind.
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