[Sca-cooks] Magninus Mediolanensis on sauces: Regimen / Latin, Irish

[Laura C. Minnick]

Well, so did the Moors- the library at Cordoba numbered more than a 
million volumes, many of them Greek and Latin texts that existed nowhere.

Naturally it was burned by Christian armies attempting to push out the 
Moors.

ruefully,
Liutgard

On 11/27/2010 5:26 PM, Elaine Koogler wrote:
> Well, not really all that surprised.  As I understand it, the Irish monks
> did a lot to maintain classical knowledge during the Dark Ages.  There's a
> great book, *How the Irish Saved Civilization* by Thomas Cahill that
> discusses this at length.
>
> Kiri
>
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 5:06 PM, emilio szabo<emilio_szabo at yahoo.it>  wrote:
>
>> Who would have thought to find a transcription of the Latin regimen
>> sanitatis of
>> Magninus Mediolanensis in a corpus of ancient texts from Ireland.
>> Wonderful!
>>
>>
>> E.
>>


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