Skip to main content alibris logo

John Scotus Eriugena at Laon & Other Poems

by ,

Write The First Customer Review
John Scotus Eriugena at Laon & Other Poems - Darras, Jacques, and Sieburth, Richard (Translated by)
Filter Results
Item Condition
Seller Rating
Other Options
Change Currency

"A long overdue volume of Jacques Darras, celebrated contemporary French poet and prolific translator and scholar of American and British poetry. "John Scotus Eriugena at Laon," the title poem of this volume, recounts the journey of a ninth-century Irish monk to the cathedral city of Laon in the heart of Picardy to translate a recently discovered Byzantine manuscript into Latin-the first such transmission of ancient Greek thought northward into Carolingian Europe. Eriugena's pithy formulation of neo-Platonism-omnia quae ...

loading
John Scotus Eriugena at Laon & Other Poems 2022, World Poetry Books

ISBN-13: 9781954218048

Trade paperback