The House of Charlemagne

by Tim Lilburn

A poem that charts the history of a Canadian settler's utopian vision of a polyglot M tis nation

Louis Riel prophesied that a polyglot M tis nation would rise on the prairies five hundred years after his death, and that it would be called by the "joyous name" of the House of Charlemagne. This new polity would be built on the principles of Riel's Massinahican, a radical philosophical system which now survives only in fragments. Its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889775303
• ISBN13: 9780889775305
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: University of Regina Press
• Length: 50 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.4"