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The Clerkenwell tales / by Peter Ackroyd.

by Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-

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Chatto & Windus, c2003.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Fiction.

Heresy -- Fiction.

London (England) -- History -- To 1500 -- Fiction.

Great Britain -- History -- Lancaster and York, 1399-1485 -- Fiction.

9780749386306 (2004 Vintage trade pbk.)

viii, 213 p. ; 24 cm.

"A story of adventure and suspense set in the late medieval world"--Inside jacket.

"The scene is London, in 1399. It is the last year of the fourteenth century, and there is talk of an apocalypse. The strangest and most interesting king in English history, Richard II, is on the throne; yet the latter part of his reign has been troubled by strange signs and portents. A nun from the convent of Clerkenwell, Sister Clarice, has been vouchsafed visions of the future. Is she a genuine prophet, or the tool of earthly powers? There is a sect of predestined men who believe that they must invoke the last judgement and the day of doom, but there are also sinister forces opposed to them ... In order to elucidate these mysterious events, Peter Ackroyd has gone back to the greatest poet of the period, Geoffrey Chaucer. Here are the Wife of Bath, the Nun's Priest, the Reeve and the Shipman - in fact, the whole cast of The Canterbury Tales, each of them with a different story which adds to the full narrative. Together they bring the past to life in miraculous detail and splendour. This is a story of adventure and suspense set in the late medieval world. As in many of Peter Ackroyd's novels the distant past is no longer a foreign country but something alarmingly close and authentic. As one critic has put it, `he is our age's greatest London imagination'."--Inside jacket.

Historical fiction.

Adventure fiction.

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