ISBN10: 0413759105, ISBN13: 9780413759108, [publisher: Methuen] Softcover First Edition Paperback.Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket and not inscribed. 408 Pages with Illustrations. 1st Edition. Page edges slightly discoloured. In this enthralling work of historical speculation Terry Jones and a team of international scholars (Robert Yeager, Terry Dolan, Alan Fletcher and Juliette Dor) investigate the mystery surrounding the death of Geoffrey Chaucer over 600 years ago. An important public figure, a diplomat and the brother-in-law to John of Gaunt - one of the most powerful men in the kingdom - Chaucer was celebrated as his country's finest living poet, rhetorician and scholar, the intellectual superstar of his time. We know a great deal about his life. And yet nothing at all is known of his death. In 1400 his name simply disappears from the record. We don't know how he died, where or when, there is no official confirmation of his death, no notice of his funeral or burial. he didn't leave a will or any manuscripts. How could this be? What if he was murdered? What if he and his writings had become politically inconvenient in the seismic social shift that followed the overthrow of the liberal Richard11 by the reactionary, repressive regime of Henry 1V and his ruthless Archbishop Arundel? This daring and controversial hypothesis is the introduction to a remarkable reading of Chaucer's writings, interwoven with a brilliant portrait of one of the ...