The Clerkenwell Tales

The Clerkenwell Tales
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2005-11-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307276929

From the foremost contemporary chronicler of London’s history, a suspenseful novel that ingeniously draws on Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales to recreate the city’s 14th century religious and political intrigues. London, 1399. Sister Clarice, a nun born below Clerkenwell convent, is predicting the death of King Richard II and the demise of the Church. Her visions can be dismissed as madness, until she accurately foretells a series of terrorist explosions. What is the role of the apocalyptic Predestined Men? And the clandestine Dominus? And what powers, ultimately, will prevail?In Peter Ackroyd’s deft and suprising narrative, The Miller, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath and other characters from Canterbury Tales pursue these mysteries through a pungently vivid medieval London.

The History of Clerkenwell. ... with Additions by the Editor, E. J. Wood. Illustrated with ... Engravings. Second Edition - Scholar's Choice Edition

The History of Clerkenwell. ... with Additions by the Editor, E. J. Wood. Illustrated with ... Engravings. Second Edition - Scholar's Choice Edition
Author: William John Pinks
Publisher:
Total Pages: 894
Release: 2015-02-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781298026385

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History and Description of the Parish of Clerkenwell

History and Description of the Parish of Clerkenwell
Author: Thomas Kitson Cromwell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2020-05-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9780461890655

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