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

[Elaine Koogler]

I didn't mean to imply that the Irish were the only ones, but they were more
in the north. In fact, Charlemagne had an Irish monk as his tutor and
emanuensis.

Kiri

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Laura C. Minnick <lcm at jeffnet.org> wrote:

> 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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