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100 1 $aJones, Terry,$d1942-2020.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85146628
245 10 $aWho murdered Chaucer? :$ba medieval mystery /$cTerry Jones [and others].
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martins Press,$c2004.
300 $a408 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aOriginally published: London : Methuen, 2003.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a"In this work of historical speculation Terry Jones and a team of international scholars 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 pre-eminent intellectual superstar of his time. We have a great deal of information 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 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, unleashed by the ruthlessly ambitious Archbishop Arundel, have been snapping at the heels of a dangerous poet?" "This 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."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aChaucer, Geoffrey,$d-1400.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79027228
600 10 $aChaucer, Geoffrey,$d-1400$xDeath and burial.
650 0 $aPoets, English$yMiddle English, 1100-1500.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85103786
852 00 $bbar$hPR1905$i.J66 2004