Westminster: A Biography: From the Earliest Times to the Present.
- Author / Editor
- Shepherd, Robert.
Westminster: A Biography: From the Earliest Times to the Present.
- Published
- London: Bloomsbury, 2012.
- Physical Description
- xxiii, 415 pp.; maps and architectural plans.
- Description
- Includes a chapter entitled "Chaucer's Westminster" (pp. 83-89) that comments on the effects of the plague in Westminster, Chaucer's knowledge of architect Henry Yevele and carpenter Hugh Herland, and the buildings in Westminster that survive from Chaucer's time. Also includes (pp. 100-101) a summary of the theory that Chaucer was murdered and buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Life