Monks Saved Western Civilization

The early Benedictine and Irish Catholic monks literally saved Western Civilization. With the rule of the Barbarians in the Middle ages literacy was of little importance to these conquerors. This resulted in the scarce supply of books and few libraries that had been established up to and under the Roman and Byzantine Empires left un-preserved or destroyed. Thanks entirely to the Monastic Movement, which began to strengthen in the early middle ages, education and civilized culture were not lost. This era is characterized by the rapid growth of these monasteries which were religious communities in which men and women lived in isolation from the rest of the population. It was here that the Monks recorded, taught and preserved the Western Christian Civilization for the benefit of mankind.
The eastern part of the Roman empire survived the various Germanic invasions and remained strong under Byzantine rule until the end of the 5th century. . The western region of Europe had been ...