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ISBN10: 0413759105, ISBN13: 9780413759108, [publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom, London] Softcover In this work of historical speculation Terry Jones investigates the mystery surrounding the death of Geoffrey Chaucer over 600 years ago. A diplomat and 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 pre-eminent intellectual of his time. And yet nothing 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 confirmtion of his death and no chronicle mentions it; no notice of his funeral or burial. He left no will and there's nothing to tell us what happened to his estate. He didn't even leave 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 occurred with the overthrow of the liberal Richard II by the reactionary, oppressive regime of Henry IV. Would the dogs of suppression, unleased by Archbishop Arundel, have been snapping at the heels of a dangerous poet?Terry Jones' hypothesis is the introduction to a reading of Chaucer's writings as evidence that might be held against him, interwoven with a portrait of one of the most turbulent periods in English history, its politics and its personalities. The book has been read, ...

Methuen, Date: 2003-10-31. Hardcover. Good. 2003. Methuen ISBN 0413759105 9780413759108 [US]

Methuen, Date: 2003. 1st edition.. Hardback. Boards, dj, F/VG+. x+408pp, colour illustrations, index, dustjacket faded to the spine & worn at the head & tail of the spine otherwise a fine copy. Newspaper review of the book laid in. A study of the circumstances of Chaucer's demise, when in 1400 he simply disappears from the record. 2003. Methuen ISBN 0413759105 9780413759108 [GB]

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London : Methuen, Date: 2003. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance: Bookplate of John F. Ashby. Physical Description: 408 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits (some color) ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-398) and index. Contents: Introduction: The suspicious circumstances of Chaucer's death -- Ch. 1. The court that Chaucer lived in -- Ch. 2. Chaucer and Richard II -- Ch. 3. The nature of Richard's rule -- Ch. 4. A time of intellectual ferment -- Ch. 5. The church strikes back -- Ch. 6. Was Richard really unpopular? -- Ch. 7. Chaucer's world changes -- Ch. 8. Chaucer's last bloody year -- Ch. 9. Chaucer's enemies gain power -- Ch. 10. Chaucer in the eye of the storm -- Ch. 11. The Canterbury Tales as death-warrant -- Ch. 12. What happened to Chaucer's work? -- Ch. 13. How the Ellesmere MS was censored -- Ch. 14. Chaucer as a political icon -- Ch. 15. Chaucer's final days -- Ch. 16. Did Chaucer really die in 1400? -- Ch. 17. Did Chaucer repent? -- Ch. 18. Chaucer and Archbishop Arundel (An ABC and The Parson's Tale) -- Ch. 19. We accuse ... Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey -1400 Death and burial; Poets, English Middle English, 1100-1500; Murder victims Great Britain; Biography; Murder England History To 1500; Great Britain History 14th century; Great Britain History Richard II, 1377-1399; Great ...

Methuen Publishing Ltd, Date: 2003. Hardcover. New. 424 pages. 9.45x6.54x1.38 inches. 2003. Methuen Publishing Ltd ISBN 0413759105 9780413759108 [GB]

Methuen Publishing Ltd 2003 Hardcover New 424 pages. 9.45x6.54x1.38 inches.