Loving Books in a Dark Age : Longreads Blog

I always loved reading Bede. It seems to me that the dark ages was one of the most interesting times. People like Bede invented modern science pretty much from scratch.

In the “dark ages” of Europe, people began reading silently to themselves, and a love of books and learning took hold, pioneered by Bede.

Source: Loving Books in a Dark Age : Longreads Blog