A thoroughly modern medieval romance
The novelist and essayist James Meek’s confident new medieval romance is conducted in brief passages separated out by three icons,…
New York times
Seven years ago Stella Tillyard, a successful historian of the 18th century, broke into historical fiction with Tides of War.…
Crusading passions
In W.B. Yeats’s ‘Meditations in Time of Civil War’, a testing allusion emerges amid a scene of nightmare: Monstrous familiar…
