Benjamin Gerber
ASIN: B00LA6DZXM
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 26
It’s not often that one expects to make such an interesting, humanizing find in an old manuscript, written in Old French, while sitting amongst the white mountains of New Hampshire. Truth be told, I didn’t really come to appreciate what I had found in the Grim manuscript until nearly fifteen years after I had left the mountains for a suburb near Boston. It wasn’t until just recently, as I was trawling through a large foot locker that held all of my college memories that I came on the digitized and printed manuscript of Sir Edward Grim. On taking another crack at it (I am now very rusty in my Old French, working mostly with computers and the professors that abuse them) I became fascinated with the man, his life and his closeness early on with several key historical figures. King Henry II (1133 - 1189) and Thomas Becket (1120 - 1170) were perhaps the first recorded incidence of a famous ...