Who Murdered Chaucer?
Subtitle: A Medieval Mystery
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: June 13, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780312335885
Subjects: Biography And Autobiography; Medieval Literature - History And Criticism; Biography & Autobiography; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Biography/Autobiography; Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; Europe - Great Britain - General; Literary; Biography; England; Great Britain; History; Middle English, 1100-1500; Murder; Murder victims; Poets, English; To 1500
First sentence: In 1401-2, a young Frenchman who had been a squire in the retinue of Richard II, and therefore well placed to observe matters of the court, recorded his opinion about Richard's downfall in 1399: 'In truth,' wrote Jean Creton, 'the only reason why he was deposed and betrayed, was because he loyally loved his father-in-law the king of France with a love as true and sincere as any man alive.