The Clerkenwell Tales

The prioress's tale -- The friar's tale -- The merchant's tale -- The clerk's tale -- The canon's yeoman's tale -- The Franklin's tale -- The nun's priest's tale -- The knight's tale -- The Reeve's tale -- The physician's tale -- The monk's tale -- The manciple's tale -- The summoner's tale -- The Miller's tale -- The wife of Bath's tale -- The cook's tale -- The squire's tale -- The man of law's tale -- The pardoner's tale -- The shipman's tale -- The parson's tale -- The second nun's tale -- The author's tale.;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. From the Trade Paperback edition.