It was the hand of Cassiodorus which gave the literary impetus to the Benedictine Order, the historian George Haven Putnam wrote in his history of books in the Middle Ages, and it was from his magnificent collection of manuscripts, rescued from the ruins of libraries in Italy, that was supplied material for the pens of thousands of monastic scribes. In his landmark history of classical scholarship, Sir John Edwin Sandys compared Cassiodorus and Boethius: While the gaze of Boethius looks back on the declining day of the old classical world, that of Cassiodorus looks forward to the dawn of the Christian Middle Ages. Of lasting significance was that each helped prevent the tradition of a great past from being overwhelmed by the storms of barbarism. While the Dark Ages are often characterized as a long intellectual slumber, there remained a heartbeat
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