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Hi Mark, I you are right, but this project is dealing with the Latin West ( as opposed to Greek east) of the collapsing Roman empire. My click bait title (based on a best selling book ) doesn't do justice to the nuance of the European situation, let alone the other parts of the globe. I do deal with this in the book, but you will appreciate that it is hard to capture that in a thumbnail. Anyway, I appreciate your input and time. It was a first time film project for us (with no financial backing) and not without its flaws! God bless, Henry

Thanks John, that was recording in 2018....which seem like the Halcion days of innocence compared to now! Anyway, enjoy the series and keep the insightful comments coming. best regards Henry

Thank you Michael, so glad you are enjoying it. Best regards Henry Vyner-Brooks

Thanks 😄

Thank you for the encouragement, so glad you are enjoying the videos. Comments like this make it all worthwhile! Best regards Henry Vyner-Brooks

@@HenryVynerBrooks I work at a fairly high level in the arts as a writer and director and have sent this to many interesting people for whom these will be very absorbing viewing. You are doing great work here, Henry. Thanks again.

Thanks Val, glad you're enjoying it, J

Sorry, not sure what SM stands for? Henry, Saving Europe

Thanks Val, really appreciate your encouragement 😊, God bless, Henry

Hi Colin, Columbanus was probably named after Columba of Iona (as you might have been too perhaps?) but they are a generation apart. I do cover some of his correspondence with Pope Gregory later in the series, but as no replies exist we can only speculate how he was seen there. He calls himself 'a greenhorn' and 'a bumptious babble writing many things unbidden' which I think probably confirms your point! Anyway, thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. Best regards Henry.

My name Colm not Colin , I'm named after st.Colm Cille so I take a interest in him , st.Aidan Columbanus and early monks from Iona and lindisfarne can recommend things to look up. Thanks henry

Thanks Jeannie, that is such an encouragement xx gald you're enjoying it. best regards Henry

Are you unsure of the phrase or the application in this instance? It is slang for ' late arrival'. Hope it didn't put you off. Best regards Henry Vyner-Brooks (Saving Europe)

@@HenryVynerBrooks i’m being sarcastic

I don’t agree with the Johnny come lately characterization

Thanks Jim for that observation. I was about to go after the Norwegians and French for similar reparations and then realized I had Norman ancestry 😅 best regards Henry Vyner-Brooks (Saving Europe)

@@HenryVynerBrooks good luck with your claims Mr Vyner Brooks. In the mean time please send on $30 by way of reparations to me personally. This will count somewhat for the kidnapping of St Patrick. This amount was set by robin d angelo

Under what administration was this kidnap authorised and supervised? Names, dates, locations please.

@@washerdryer3466 you never heard of st Patrick?

@@jimweights8908 That's all you've got? Ok. 🤣🤣

Hi, Pravda is Russian for 'truth', so I was riffing of the name. thanks for watching, Henry

@@savingeurope I know it's for "truth" in Russian. However, the newspaper name gives me bad memories. Nothing true was there. That's the reason I associate it with lies etc.

@@tantuce ok, I see now. very sorry for that. And I know what you mean as I've been a keen reader of soviet era history. When the name appears in print, it comes with an image of Jesus to clarify the reference. (as He said he was The Truth etc), Anyway, Hope it doesn't spoil and future viewing. God bless, Henry

@@savingeurope no worries, thank you

Sorry about that, it was really a first effort in sound mixing...and it does get better in later episodes if you can stick with it. anyway, many thanks for taking the time to watch. best regards Henry

Hi, I fully sympathize, thanks for watching, best regards, Henry

We will RISE AND WIN. Dictatorship and eu/wef/who all to hell along with Islam. IRELAND FOR IRISH 🙏❤️✝️

Thanks for watching Gary. In the saving Europe book I quoted Sigmund freud saying that the Irish were the only people who could not be psychoanalysed. That takes a certain type of genius! God bless, Henry Vyner-Brooks Vyner-Brooks

Thanks for the comment, it was a beautiful place to film. And yes, timely for lots of reasons. God bless, Henry VB

Wait a minute, is that THE Jonny Armstrong, star paramedic? Welcome on board!

@HenryVynerBrooks Thanks for the welcome! I'm a healthcare support worker, I'm not quite sure about the star part, but I am indeed Tom's friend, what a pleasure it is to know him!

Hi Mary, I hope I never do. Thanks for watching x

Ora et labora ! quite right to mention it Mary. I did love that Newman quote though! xx

Thanks Matthew for the comment, and welcome to our little journey into the early medieval history. Any questions as you go, we'll try to answer, God bless, Henry VB

Hi Michael, not quite sure to which bit your comment refers. Perhaps you could clarify? God bless, Henry

@@savingeurope Since you don't know I won't tell you Wisedom is to be gained not given away

Ok, no worries 😊 ​@@michaelmessenger5742

Wow, I did not know that.

I agree, the man is a machine.

Yes, I saw that too. I think it was also stuck on the end of a Neil Oliver DVD box set, Maybe history of Scotland? anyway, thanks to commenting and watching. best regards Henry VB

More Irish history make believe.

@@Les-d1n not sure what dialect your writing in Les but knowledge and studying will enlighten you brother

I get where you are coming from. Sounds like we need some more saints like Comgalls and Columanus! God bless, Henry

Not at all. We have some who are just evil and twisted and happen to be in power. And importing Satanic cultOFislam. What they forget is,we Irish are not very good at being anyone's lapdog, we bite back 🙏❤️✝️ we will fight the good fight and never bow to any cult or man or government

Apologies for this, you're not the first person to notice. I eventually found the standard 'background music' settings for the adobe program, so it should get better in later episodes. ...this was v much a first stab for us! Appreciate your time. God bless Henry Vyner-Brooks

You are right to make the distinction, I could have been clearer. In fact, I was interested that my Arab hosts in Arabia recently made great distinction between themselves and Muslim Turks. But the call of Islam as a political identity supersedes any ethnic or national affiliation. so in that regard, and when viewed by Columbanus' spiritual descendants, they did form a cohesive whole rather than specific ethic identities. Anyways, no offense intended and thanks for taking the time to watch and give me some feedback. Best regards Henry Vyner-Brooks

@@HenryVynerBrooks Thank you for taking the time to respond and no offence taken just annoyance that modern ideologies are being reflected backwards without even being noticed. The political identity of islam was always contested from within and was certainly not viewed as a political entity as we would think of it today. In my readings of these times the muslims were generally referred to as Saracens or Moors, their religion, when considered at all was to be dismissed as a heresy. I would agree that there certainly was a unique syncretism between state and the religion but a reading of historical texts from even the earliest times of islam shows that the "political" was initially completely subservient to the religion, but later fractured into many kingdoms with Sultans and Emirs acting according to their whims and often contrary to islamic principals, not at all a unified political islam. Not long after entering the region of what today is Southern France that unity faltered and broke. Men being men, power was more attractive. and spreading God's word was of secondary importance. It was not long before the Franks were sending ambassadors to Al Andalus and vice versa. In fact the Ambassador to the Frankish court from the Caliphate of Al Andalus was a Christian Bishop. I do not think that in the years following the invasions it was viewed in a political context as we see Islam today . The one thing that islam did in the early days was provide security for different christian sects within their polity was to offer them protection to practice their faith in a way that they might not have been able under other Christian powers. When Columbanus and his Irish monks came to the main land of Europe the question is why? There were plenty of Christians in what was then the Frankish kingdoms and indeed all the way to Rome and the Iberian peninsula. From Columbanus' perspective, though, the mainland was full of heretics, the wrong sort of Christian. From today's perspective he was a fundamentalist. The Vandals of Iberia were predominantly Arian Christians only converting to Catholicism shortly before the Arab invasion. Then in keeping with the intolerance of that religion began the persecution of Jews and non Catholic Christians. Religion was certainly co-opted to serve political agendas in Europe much the same way secularism or other ideologies are co-opted by states or groups today I'm just not sure that it is cohesive. Anyway sorry for the long rambling epistle. I am enjoying your excellent series. I start episode 7 tonight and do hope to continue to the end. As a lover of all things history, I very much appreciate this work .

@@foxa3824 great analysis, showing the complexity of the times. I have written about some of this elsewhere in the novels but I am really forced to paint with a v broad brush in the travel documentary genre. Anyway, really appreciate your input x

Thanks Nicola, so glad you enjoyed it. If you are interested in the other part of the story then Season II should be easy to find x

@@HenryVynerBrooks thank you I will look for it

Thank you for the comment John, so glad you are enjoying these. Keep the comments coming, Best regards Henry Vyner-Brooks