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Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer was born between 1340 and 1345 in London to John Chaucer, a prosperous wine merchant, and Agnes Copton. Through his father’s connections, he began his career serving as a page to Elizabeth, Countess of Ulster, and later held numerous important positions as a courtier, diplomat, civil servant, and collector of scrap metal. Chaucer was fluent in French, Italian, and Latin, traveled extensively on diplo

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Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer gives voice to ordinary people, revealing a society where authority, morality, and social rank are openly tested through speech, choice, and character. By placing kings, clerics, merchants, and peasants on equal narrative footing, he offers a quietly radical insight for free societies: liberty grows where individuals may speak, judge, and be judged beyond their station.

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Dante

Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy, around May 21–June 20, 1265, to a family of lesser nobility. Florence at the time was a hotbed of political intrigue and factionalism, with the Guelph and Ghibelline parties vying for power—a scenario that would profoundly shape Dante’s life and work. His mother died in his childhood, and his father died when Dante was still young. He married Gemma Donati around 1285, thou

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1300–1400 AD

← Back to All Books 1300–1400 AD The fourteenth century AD includes major works of medieval literature, philosophy, reform theology, drama, poetry, and historical thought. This section highlights Arabian Nights, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Wycliffe, Ibn Khaldūn, Chaucer, Nō plays, Piers Plowman, Jan Hus, and related medieval literary and theological works. Read More No books match this filter.

Books & Works

Chaucer’s World

Rickert, Edith · 1948 · Chaucer’s World. Edited by Clair C. Olson and Martin M. Crow. New York: Columbia University Press, 1948.

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The Complete Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 · 1946 · The Complete Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Modernized by John S. P. Tatlock and Percy MacKaye. New York: Macmillan, 1946. The Modern Reader’s Chaucer.

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The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 · 1894–1900 · The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Edited by Walter W. Skeat. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894–1900. 6 volumes.

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