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Ep 174: We're men, we're men in tights (Tight tights!) - Geoffrey Chaucer
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Poetry Professor Taylor will be walking us through the life and times of Geoffery Chaucer! Just kidding - a normal person who doesn't understand Middle English at all, Taylor, will walk us through this story today!
We tie back to last week's peasant revolt to talk about how Chaucer's apartment was above the Aldgate - so he would have watched people rush into London. We also talk about the precipice of change in this time period - in hindsight, it's easy to see we're on our way to The Renaissance, but we're pretty sure some folks knew then too!
Sources:
Sony Pictures to pay $1.5 million to settle suit over fake film critic
Chaucer: A European Life -- Marion Turner
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691160092/chaucer
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