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523 Geoffrey Chaucer (with Marion Turner) | A New Podcast About the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike (with AFSCME President Lee Saunders)

The History of Literature

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Chaucer's European Life

Chaucer lived a very European life. He was in the royal household, but he's also a member of a chaotic parliament. His milieu was cosmopolitan. And I think it's really important for people to think about that when they're thinking about how literature in English evolved at that time.

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