Publisher's Synopsis
When the light of faith and learning was quenched in Northern Europe by the invation of the barbarian hordes in the 5th century AD, it was the Irish who relit it. From the 6th to the 12th centuries, Irish monks went as saints and scholars, in voluntary exile, calling themselves peregrinatores pro Christos - pilgrims for Christ.;They founded monasteries in Pictish Scotland and the violent territories between the Seine and the Rhine. Their influence was felt from Iceland to Sicily and as far east as Kiev; and when their work of sanctification was safely accomplished, they became scholars at the courts of the Carolingian kings.;This work is a compendium of the names, places and works of this golden age of Ireland - abroad.
