Long Will

Set in the fourteenth century, the narrative follows poets, pilgrims, and restless commons who move between cloistered conversation and political turmoil, animating contemporary figures and episodes of social unrest. It alternates lyrical passages and pilgrim scenes with scheming at court, a long progress through the countryside, and a rising that reaches urban confrontations, sanctuary, imprisonment, and reckoning. Recurring themes are truth, conscience, literary creation amid plague and hardship, and the clash between popular grievance and authority. The book is arranged as a prologue, three parts (malcontents, pilgrimage, the rising) and an epilogue that measures loss and memory.