Library

From Pliny to Dante, from the Alexander legends to the Arthurian romances, from the Bookkeeper's Curse to the "cloth of the world", the author plucks wax leaf specimens from the garden of past texts and images, collects the music of celestial bodies under the distant medieval stars, and weaves a galaxy of words along the warp and weft of history and stories. From a series of specific and interesting perspectives such as cosmology, marine culture, bestiary, sensory history, and exotic imagination, this book opens the door to a small maze of medieval literature, art, geography, and intellectual history. The author strives to break down the barriers of disciplines, languages, and academic writing styles. Like a storyteller in the Anglo-Saxon era who was both a poet and a historian, he strummed the strings beside the campfire during the long nights and told readers who were willing to stop by about the Middle Ages, which was by no means dark.