A Clerk of Oxford, and His Adventures in the Barons' War

The narrative follows a young clerk who arrives in medieval Oxford, discovers student life in halls and tower lodgings, and encounters scholarly rivalry, town-and-gown tensions, and monastic influence. As national politics erupt into the Barons' War, students and masters become entangled with nobles and royal forces, leading to marches, sieges, the field of Lewes, captivity, and plotted intrigues. Interludes depict city festivals, academic disputes, and household scenes at Kenilworth Castle, while characters face moral tests, shifting loyalties, and legal contests before a resolution that returns some to scholarly pursuits and rewards others on the riverside.