The Bishop's Tale began when Gail phoned one morning to wail, "Thomas Chaucer is dead!" Well, I replied, it has been over 500 years ... "No," she insisted, "he died in 1436!" Thomas Chaucer was an authentic historical figure, lots is known about him, and he was a very important man with some interesting quirks we could use to explain how things went in his time. He was our heroine's "uncle by marriage" -- a fictional connection, but an important one to our series. And if he died in 1436, then we would lose him too early in the series

Still, there would be a funeral, and a funeral feast. We were both members of the Society for Creative Anachronism, and so had been to a number of medieval-style feasts. And, I had been wanting to use a old anecdote about an English nobleman who stood up at a feast and declared, "If I am wrong in this matter, may God strike me dead." And fell dead at the table. So everyone believed he was wrong, and historians, oddly, still seem to believe he was wrong. But what if he wasn't? And therein lies The Bishop's Tale.

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