Precisely between their God and the Devil, heaven and hell, white and black, the man of heart walks through.
In the fifth century, Britain has been abandoned by the Roman empire. Threatened by raiders along its coasts, an army massing in the north, increasing numbers of migrants, self-interest and civil war, Britannia is disintegrating. Vortigern is given the task of saving the province. A Man of Heart is the second part of A Presentment of Englishry; it continues to follow the narrative trajectory of Laȝamon’s Brut, a late 12th century version of The Legendary History, the foundation myth of Britain.”
Shearsman