Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery Summary and Reviews

Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery
by Terry Jones, Robert Yeager, Alan Fletcher, Juliette Dor, Terry Dolan

Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery
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Author: Alan Fletcher, Juliette Dor, Robert Yeager, Terry Dolan, Terry Jones
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-06-13
ISBN: 0312335881
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

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Book Review: disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars

Terry Jones' 'Chaucer's Knight' was groundbreaking. His latest, 'Who Murdered Chaucer?' is deeply disappointing. He picks a very interesting subject about which we know relatively little. His evidence is well chosen (if repetitive) and his argument well made, though of course utterly speculative.

However, this book is stylistically appalling. In his desire to make everything 'accessible', Jones takes every opportunity possible to supplement his otherwise fair-to-good argument with patronising and very irritating asides. Take this for instance:

'The taverns and corner shops of old England must have been buzzing - not with the lates news of how England was doing in the World Cup or of celebrity divorces - but with the latest sermon preached in the town or the latest religious scandal. / These were extraordinary times to be living in. And in 1381 it was all to boil over. The times were to get even more exciting and extraordinary... perhaps too exciting and too extraordinary.'

This is not an isolated example. The book is littered with them. A real turn-off. And a real pity, as this is a book which should be written. If only his editor had had the courage to scrap all the gibberish.

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