These are some of the books I read during last half a century or so, and some of the thoughts, questions, reactions and insights, emotions - and so forth -, evoked on reading them, either then or later sometime during the interim years and decades, or even thinking over now, that are summed up here while trying to record my impressions about what I read.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
The Friar and the Cipher: Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery of the Most Unusual Manuscript in the World; by Lawrence Goldstone, Nancy Goldstone.
I read this with far less expectation than the amount of informationa and knowledge it provided about European and mediterraenean history. Truly one of the most remarkable books on the subject that one can ever find.