Into the light

"The first published translation of Meir of Norwich's poems brings a valuable medieval literary voice to prominence after more than 700 years. Everything we know about Meir ben Eliahu -- his name, his experiences as a Jew in 13th-century England, his love of God -- comes from the twenty poems in this book ... For more than 600 years the poems were lost, only to be rediscovered in the late 1800s in the Vatican Library and, in the case of one poem, in a Russian manuscript. Now they have been reinterpreted for today's readers"--