Unfinished Business
Reflections on the Middle Ages: Conquest to Peasants' Revolt
Will be published approx. on 1. August 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
60 pages
978-1-78963-626-0 (ISBN)
Description
Notions of 'progress' can well lead to the positioning of the present as inevitably 'better' than the past. But when it comes to issues like the systematic exploitation of power for personal or group advantage and the 'othering' of those who rise in protest, the echoes are still clear and pertinent today as are the current challenges of climate change and the threat from pandemics.
Unfinished Business neither idealises the Middle Ages nor regards them as past times too removed or 'uncivilised' to have meaning or resonance. Despite the vast changes since in society, science and technology, these poems speak to what we share in common with the MIddle Ages: the unfinished business of so many still struggling for basic justice, freedom from want and the recognition of their human dignity.
Unfinished Business neither idealises the Middle Ages nor regards them as past times too removed or 'uncivilised' to have meaning or resonance. Despite the vast changes since in society, science and technology, these poems speak to what we share in common with the MIddle Ages: the unfinished business of so many still struggling for basic justice, freedom from want and the recognition of their human dignity.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Gloucester
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
74 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78963-626-0 (9781789636260)
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David taught on VSO in Sri Lanka between studies at Cambridge and Oxford. He then taught in a variety of settings and also worked for four years with homeless people in London before finding his way to 20 years' work as a Class Teacher in Steiner education.
David grew up in Painswick and his latest title 'A Painswick Panorama" (Ex-Libris Press 2022) is a sustained poetic celebration sub-titled 'Glimpses into the History of a Cotswold Village' Other collections in preparation include a life of Kaspar Hauser and the final sequence in his 'treasury' series: 'A Treasury of Earth: from Rocks to Crystals'. David has two grown-up sons and lives with his wife in the hilltop village of Orcop overlooking the Black Mountains.
David grew up in Painswick and his latest title 'A Painswick Panorama" (Ex-Libris Press 2022) is a sustained poetic celebration sub-titled 'Glimpses into the History of a Cotswold Village' Other collections in preparation include a life of Kaspar Hauser and the final sequence in his 'treasury' series: 'A Treasury of Earth: from Rocks to Crystals'. David has two grown-up sons and lives with his wife in the hilltop village of Orcop overlooking the Black Mountains.