Geoffrey Chaucer
@geoffreychaucer.bsky.social
Literary Fiend. Lover of All Things English: It's Language (Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, Early Modern and Modern), History (Pre-History through the Stuarts are most interesting), Culture, Architecture, Geography, etc.
1. Birth of Venus through Time
Roman Fresco of the Birth of Venus from Pompeii, 1st Century A.D.
Roman Fresco of the Birth of Venus from Pompeii, 1st Century A.D.
January 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
1. Birth of Venus through Time
Roman Fresco of the Birth of Venus from Pompeii, 1st Century A.D.
Roman Fresco of the Birth of Venus from Pompeii, 1st Century A.D.
Nothing can contrast the difference better between our ancestors appreciation for beauty than the Bodlian Library a mix of various buildings from various times, Palladian to English Gothic, and the brutalist modern architecture of the British National Library Library.
January 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Nothing can contrast the difference better between our ancestors appreciation for beauty than the Bodlian Library a mix of various buildings from various times, Palladian to English Gothic, and the brutalist modern architecture of the British National Library Library.
Geoffrey Chaucer made a fateful choice that changed the course of history when he chose to write in local vernacular English when the ruling class spoke French and wrote in French and Latin. It was not the beginning of the English language, but it lent it respectability and created a new identity.
Chaucer and the idea of Englishness
Tradition has it that by writing The Canterbury Tales in English, Geoffrey Chaucer took a conscious decision to challenge the dominance of French and Latin as
the languages of written texts. But was ...
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February 13, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Geoffrey Chaucer made a fateful choice that changed the course of history when he chose to write in local vernacular English when the ruling class spoke French and wrote in French and Latin. It was not the beginning of the English language, but it lent it respectability and created a new identity.
Here is the 1st of Dr. Eric Luttrell's 3 part series of on Chaucer's England and even a little Europe. It's a fascinating series of lectures from which I guarantee you will learn something.
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Chaucer (Part 1 of 3) Chaucer's England
This is the first of three lectures about Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It gives a brief history of events in England from the time of the Beowulf man...
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February 12, 2024 at 11:26 PM
Here is the 1st of Dr. Eric Luttrell's 3 part series of on Chaucer's England and even a little Europe. It's a fascinating series of lectures from which I guarantee you will learn something.
youtu.be/dCEim-hH0kA?...
youtu.be/dCEim-hH0kA?...
Records show Chaucer's life was full of many twist and turns from page to soldier to diplomat to forester. Chaucer's many career paths show life was not static in 14th century England.
www.medievalists.net/2022/10/geof...
www.medievalists.net/2022/10/geof...
Geoffrey Chaucer’s Day-Jobs - Medievalists.net
Geoffrey Chaucer is one of the most famous poets of the Middle Ages, but like many struggling writers today, he held several day-jobs. Here are some of the many jobs that Chaucer had over the course o...
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February 11, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Records show Chaucer's life was full of many twist and turns from page to soldier to diplomat to forester. Chaucer's many career paths show life was not static in 14th century England.
www.medievalists.net/2022/10/geof...
www.medievalists.net/2022/10/geof...
'Tis a shame Becket was murdered in such brutal fashion, but without this scene our history, language, and literature would never be the same. Mass pilgrimages to Canterbury and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales would never have been written.
#CanterburyTales
#Chaucer
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#CanterburyTales
#Chaucer
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Thomas Becket: the murder that shook the Middle Ages
Discover how the assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170 changed the course of history...
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December 14, 2023 at 3:35 PM
'Tis a shame Becket was murdered in such brutal fashion, but without this scene our history, language, and literature would never be the same. Mass pilgrimages to Canterbury and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales would never have been written.
#CanterburyTales
#Chaucer
www.britishmuseum.org/blog/thomas-...
#CanterburyTales
#Chaucer
www.britishmuseum.org/blog/thomas-...
One of my favorite quotes from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (The Merchant's Tale). #Chaucer #CanterburyTales
December 14, 2023 at 1:39 PM
One of my favorite quotes from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (The Merchant's Tale). #Chaucer #CanterburyTales
The Progenie of Gefrey Chaucer. A Renaissance depiction shows Chaucer resting between his descendants ending in the last Yorkist claimants of the de la Poole family, murdered by the Tudors, and his brother-in-law John of Gaunt's descendants that were to become known as the House of Lancaster.
December 14, 2023 at 3:58 AM
The Progenie of Gefrey Chaucer. A Renaissance depiction shows Chaucer resting between his descendants ending in the last Yorkist claimants of the de la Poole family, murdered by the Tudors, and his brother-in-law John of Gaunt's descendants that were to become known as the House of Lancaster.
They do not call Geoffrey Chaucer
Father of the English Language
For no reason.
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Father of the English Language
For no reason.
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The Canterbury Tales, or, How Technology Changes The Way We Speak: The London History Show
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December 14, 2023 at 3:21 AM
They do not call Geoffrey Chaucer
Father of the English Language
For no reason.
youtu.be/rZ5znvym68k?...
Father of the English Language
For no reason.
youtu.be/rZ5znvym68k?...