Two Ancient English Scholars, St. Aldhelm and William of Malmesbury Being the First Lecture on the David Murray Foundation in the University of Glasgow Delivered on June 9th, 1931 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Two Ancient English Scholars, St. Aldhelm and William of Malmesbury: Being the First Lecture on the David Murray Foundation in the University of Glasgow Delivered on June 9th, 1931 It is a truism to which I hardly like to give utterance that the monasteries of Europe were the principal agents in preserving the literature of ancient times. Has any Latin classic survived except through the medium of some monastic or cathedral library None, I believe - apart from a few broken relics from Herculaneum or Egypt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.