The Herb Garden: Volume 253

by Philippa Back

Bartholomew the Englishman was a 13th century Franciscan friar and scholar whose only surviving work, De proprietatibus rerum (The Properties of Things), was intended as an encyclopaedia of the world. The Herb Garden is an imaginary representation of what his herbarium might have looked like. The dialect of the collection is a mix of middle and modern English, a verbal florilegium meant to explore the exuberant richness of the English language that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771832754
• ISBN13: 9781771832755
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Guernica Editions
• Length: 65 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.9" x 7.8"