Clerkenwell Tales
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only.
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 224
I am sister to the day and night. I am sister to the woods." Sister Clarisse, a nun in the House of St Mary at Clerkenwell, experiences visions. She dreams of the English King. Are her prophesies the babblings of the crazed? Or can she 'see' a furture in which Henry Bolingbroke overthrows Richard II? This clever and colourful novel begins with "The Nun's Tale" and continues with "The Friars Tale", "The Merchant's Tale" and "The Clerk's Tale".... Thus story by story, Peter Ackroyd builds his portrait of medieval London. The people are disenchanted by the church, with its wealth and corruption, its Pope in Rome and its Pope in Avignon. But heresy is dangerous .... almost as dangerous as rebellion. This is a novel about spies and counter-spies, radicals and idealists, murderers and arsonists, sects and secret societies.
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 224
I am sister to the day and night. I am sister to the woods." Sister Clarisse, a nun in the House of St Mary at Clerkenwell, experiences visions. She dreams of the English King. Are her prophesies the babblings of the crazed? Or can she 'see' a furture in which Henry Bolingbroke overthrows Richard II? This clever and colourful novel begins with "The Nun's Tale" and continues with "The Friars Tale", "The Merchant's Tale" and "The Clerk's Tale".... Thus story by story, Peter Ackroyd builds his portrait of medieval London. The people are disenchanted by the church, with its wealth and corruption, its Pope in Rome and its Pope in Avignon. But heresy is dangerous .... almost as dangerous as rebellion. This is a novel about spies and counter-spies, radicals and idealists, murderers and arsonists, sects and secret societies.
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only.
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 224
I am sister to the day and night. I am sister to the woods." Sister Clarisse, a nun in the House of St Mary at Clerkenwell, experiences visions. She dreams of the English King. Are her prophesies the babblings of the crazed? Or can she 'see' a furture in which Henry Bolingbroke overthrows Richard II? This clever and colourful novel begins with "The Nun's Tale" and continues with "The Friars Tale", "The Merchant's Tale" and "The Clerk's Tale".... Thus story by story, Peter Ackroyd builds his portrait of medieval London. The people are disenchanted by the church, with its wealth and corruption, its Pope in Rome and its Pope in Avignon. But heresy is dangerous .... almost as dangerous as rebellion. This is a novel about spies and counter-spies, radicals and idealists, murderers and arsonists, sects and secret societies.
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 224
I am sister to the day and night. I am sister to the woods." Sister Clarisse, a nun in the House of St Mary at Clerkenwell, experiences visions. She dreams of the English King. Are her prophesies the babblings of the crazed? Or can she 'see' a furture in which Henry Bolingbroke overthrows Richard II? This clever and colourful novel begins with "The Nun's Tale" and continues with "The Friars Tale", "The Merchant's Tale" and "The Clerk's Tale".... Thus story by story, Peter Ackroyd builds his portrait of medieval London. The people are disenchanted by the church, with its wealth and corruption, its Pope in Rome and its Pope in Avignon. But heresy is dangerous .... almost as dangerous as rebellion. This is a novel about spies and counter-spies, radicals and idealists, murderers and arsonists, sects and secret societies.
Clerkenwell Tales
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