The Story of Eyeglasses from the Middle Ages to my Face this Week
My Personal Encounter with a Medieval Invention
In Eugene Vodolazkin’s novel Brisbane the main character, Gleb, visits a Byzantine chapel. Inside, an elderly priest recites his prayers. Gleb, afflicted with Parkinson’s, finds peace in the moment as he and his wife “cheat the future that awaits us outside the doors.”
The old priest finishes and turns to talk with Gleb, who then notices the priests’s an…
