Bestiary, Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 764 Gustave Kahn so far from home

so far from home

" -- Michael Howard ― Times Literary Supplement

and L’École des Beaux-Arts in Paris

it is tempting to read The Other Side as a satire on the reactionary

today they seem so strange that we can hardly believe that they even existed

Bestiary, Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 764 Gustave Kahn so far from homeBestiary: Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 764, translated by Richard Barber ISBN 9780851157535 an attractive 205 page paperback with flaps, 5. 5 x 8. 5 inches, published by Boydell Press *** A delightful translation of one of the finest, and most beautiful, examples of a medieval Bestiary. Bestiaries are a particularly characteristic product of medieval England, and give a unique insight into the medieval mind.