Peter Godman is a fellow and tutor of Pembroke College, Oxford. His Alcuin: The Bishops, Kings and Saints of York was published last January.
It is hard to imagine how a future United Europe (supposing there is ever such a thing) could grow a literature of its own – distinct, that is, from the literatures of the nations which...
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