From the foremost contemporary chronicler Of London's history, a suspenseful novel that ingeniously draws On Chaucer's to recreate the city's 14th century religious and political intrigues. London, 1399. Sister clarice, ...From the foremost contemporary chronicler Of London's history, a suspenseful novel that ingeniously draws On Chaucer's 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.