Chaucer's Triumph: Including the Case of Cecilia Chaumpaigne, the Seduction of Katherine Swinford, the Murder of Her Husband, the Interment of John of ... Other Offices of the Flesh in the Year 1399

by Garry O'Connor

Garry O'Connor has written a riveting historical novel, which brings out the passions of that paradoxically refined and savage age -- it rekindles our fascination not only with the author of the bawdy and most erotic of the 'Canterbury Tales' as well as of the rarefied love allegories of mediaeval chivalry, but also with Prince John of Gaunt, the historic sisters Philippa Chaucer and Katherine Swinford, and Scriven, the ever complaining antagonist. Authentic in background and based on close research, 'Chaucer's Triumph', in its investigation of married love and the practice of adultery, is highly relevant to the modern world.

Genres: Geoffrey Chaucer

294 pages, Hardcover

First published July 21, 2014

Reviews

[Brian]

Sorry, I wanted to like it, but I'm afraid I didn't.