在民族大迁徙的过程中,当日耳曼人像潮水般地涌入罗马帝国,到处袭击城市、破坏古典文化时,许多大陆学者为了躲避灾难,携带了大量的手稿和文献逃至地处孤岛的爱尔兰,使其成为中世纪初期保存古典文化知识的中心。此外,爱尔兰修士还通过在各地的传教,将爱尔兰式教会和修道院制度扩散至英格兰以及西欧大陆,为传播古典文化作出了积极的贡献。 During the process of national trekking, when the Germanic people flooded into the Roman Empire like a flood of waves, attacking cities and destroying classical culture everywhere, many mainland scholars, in order to avoid disasters, carried a large number of manuscripts and articles and fled to isolated islands of Ireland. Making it the center of preservation of classical cultural knowledge in the early Middle Ages. In addition, Irish monks also made active contributions to the spread of classical culture by spreading missionaries throughout the country, spreading Irish churches and monastic institutions to England and the Western European continent.