observer Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 Dan Snow is doing an interesting prog on post-Roman Britain. Note: St Patrick took christianity to Ireland, and with it, the retention of aquired knowledge, when England was being overun by the Pagan and illiterate- Saxons, Angles and Jutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 Not many people know that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 I watched it quite interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted July 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2009 Yer never too old to learn Pierre! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted July 11, 2009 Report Share Posted July 11, 2009 With that in mind Obs, I am thinking of sending you on an NVQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted July 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2009 A dumbed down one no doubt; nah, I'll stick with the University of life! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted July 11, 2009 Report Share Posted July 11, 2009 Â I buy you a pint in the students union Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted July 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2009 Don't drink pints anymore! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goonerman Posted August 8, 2009 Report Share Posted August 8, 2009 St Comgall, a successor to St Patrick, founded a little school in Bangor, Co. down which was a predecessor of the great medieval universities in Oxford, Cambridge and Paris. Amongst his pupils were Columbanus and his sidekick Gall, and they went on a tour of Europe spreading literacy, knowledge and the Gospel, ending up in Milan and Bobbio in Italy. The city of St Gallen in Switzerland is named after Gall, and Columbanus gave the Bangor Antiphonary to the churches in Milan, where it still is today. From that little group of huts in Bangor Magnus, as the old chroniclers called it to distinguish it from Bangor in Wales, came the rescue of intellectual pursuits, classical studies, and the rescue of Western Europe from paganism and ignorance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted August 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2009 Ironic that religion rescued enlightenment and science, only to resist it ever since! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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