I like a good secret history. I learned about this book from various book lists and of course from Donna Tartt swiping the title. But I got my first real sense of it from the work of Susan Wise Bauer, specifically “The History of the Medieval World” which borrows heavily from this historian (both from his official accounts and this more unofficial account). More than anything this is a book about the story of the book, meaning that the way and context of its writing […]