Who Murdered Chaucer?  -  Terry Jones

A Medieval Mystery

KORTE INHOUD

In this spectacular 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 preeminent 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 n...
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2006 Uitgever: St. Martin's Griffin 416 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0312335881 ISBN-13: 9780312335885