TO CALAIS, IN ORDINARY TIME

Three journeys. One road.England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a Scots proctor sets out for Avignon and a young ploughman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais.C oming in their direction from across the Channel is the Black Death, the plague that will wipe out half of the population of Norther n Europe. As the journey unfolds, overshadowed by the archers' past misdeeds and clerical warnings of the imminent end of the world, the wayf...[Read more]