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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 Sexual Assault Allegations

It's taken me this long to do an episode on Chaucer. One of the reasons that I stopped was I didn't know exactly what to make of the sexual assault allegations against him. And I felt like it was important to discuss it, especially now. So what do we know about the allegations against him and facts underneath them? Yeah. A woman called Cecily Champagne released Chaucer from further actions pertaining to her raptors. That's the word that she used in the document.

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