Írsky vplyv na kultúru Európy raného stredoveku
The Irish influence on culture of Europe in the early Midle Ages

Summary/Abstract: By the end of the 6th century, enthusiasm for Christianity was leading Irishmen to devote themselves to a most austere existence as monks, as hermits, and as missionaries to pagan tribes in a great area of west-central Europe. Of the continental missionaries, the best-known is St. Columban (543–615), whose monastic foundations at Luxeuil, in the Vosges and at Bobbio became important centres of learning. Both at home and abroad the saints were succeeded by scholars, whose work in sacred and classical studies and particularly in elaborating an Irish Christian mythology and literature was to have profound eff ects on medieval culture and was to be one of a major factor in its development. Th e Irish monasteries - with those in Clonmacnoise and Clonard among the most famous-became notable centres of learning

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