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  • The Little Garden of Walahfrid Strabo
    Jeff Sypeck
    Composed in the tumultuous decades following the reign of Charlemagne, the garden poem of Carolingian monk Walahfrid Strabo (c.809-849) has long charmed readers with its timeless descriptions of late-winter labors and its suggestions for the medicinal uses of various plants. This new translation, rendered in engaging metrical verse printed alongside the original Latin text, mak...
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    25,62 €

  • Fortress of Failure
    Jeff Sypeck
    From 1934 to 1941, the women’s magazine Redbook published four stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald set in early medieval France, half of an eight-story cycle the author did not live long enough to complete. Deemed by Fitzgerald’s daughter to be unworthy of reprinting, the 'Philippe, Count of Darkness' stories remain some of the most obscure work by an otherwise widely read and thoro...
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    8,53 €

  • Looking Up
    Jeff Sypeck
    From light verse and straightforward sonnets to strange soliloquies and songs, Looking Up gives voice to the stony figures that adorn Washington National Cathedral?the beasts, fiends, and sentinels that watch us as we pass unknowingly beneath them. Rooted in folklore and myth, medieval history, and the cathedral?s restorative gardens and grounds, the 53 poems in this book awak...
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    23,78 €

  • The Tale of Charlemagne and Ralph the Collier
    Jeff Sypeck
    Charbonnier est ma?tre chez soi: ''The collier is master in his own house.'' This French saying finds its most literal expression in The Tale of Charlemagne and Ralph the Collier, a 15th-century Middle Scots romance about the adventures that ensue when King Charlemagne, separated from his entourage by a blizzard, seeks refuge in the home of a proud and irascible collier. Combin...
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    13,36 €