"While the rest of western Europe was plunged into the Dark Ages by the fall of the Roman Empire, Ireland entered her Golden Age of literature, learning and art. This is the first book to deal with that remarkable Early Christian culture as a whole, and the first that summarises the evidence of the excavations of the past quarter-century. Much unpublished material has been used, and new views are offered on various aspects of the subject."--Back cover...

From the John Holmes Library collection.

Guide to architecture of the Western world, late 19th century to 1957.