5/18/2023 0 Comments A burnable book by bruce holsinger![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the light fails and belief fades into nothingness, and the season of your darkest ignorance begins. A time when you will find even the brightest certainties-of friendship, of family, even of faith-dimming into shadows of bewilderment. Yet there may come a time when your knowledge will betray you. You are rarely surprised, and never deceived. If you aren’t exactly trusted in certain circles, you are respected, and your name carries a certain weight. ![]() You pay handsomely for it you use it selectively and well. If you build your own life around the secret lives of others, if you erect your house on the corrupt foundations of theirs, you soon come to regard all useful knowledge as your due. Information becomes your entitlement. Poets Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower are caught up in the search for a mysterious book that may or may not predict the death of the king. He's also a professor in the English department at the University of Virginia.īut when he decided to write a fiction book set in the middle ages, he discovered how much he didn't know. Facebook Email This article is more than 9 years old.īruce Holsinger has won prizes for his nonfiction books on the medieval period from the Modern Language Association and the Medieval Academy of America. ![]()
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