Who Murdered Chaucer? A Medieval Mystery
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: December 9, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780312335878
Subjects: History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History: World; Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; Biography; England; Great Britain; 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.