Professor Marion Turner

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You're Dead to Me · Geoffrey Chaucer: the medieval father of English literature · 27 Feb 2026 podcast

But girls usually would have been literate in English and French, whereas boys are trilingual, educated boys, English, French and Latin.

So unlike today, you know, this was a multilingual educated society in this country.

And most of the education at school was in Latin.

But people, again, they often tend to think of older style education as very much the students being very passive, receiving a lot of information.

But that wasn't the case in medieval education.

In schools, boys did a lot of performance, a lot of learning rhetoric.

You might be given a fable and asked to invent different morals and then defend them or get up and give different sides of the debate.

So it was a kind of theatre.

Yeah, I mean, it was strict often.

You know, there's one great case of a schoolmaster getting injured because he was climbing up a tree trying to get lots of sticks to beat the school children, for example.

So it was strict, but

Yeah, absolutely.

But yes, he would have got a really solid education there, though he was also certainly a self-educator.

He was an autodidact because he read so much more than most people were reading at that time.

Yeah, very interesting.

He doesn't.

No, he does something quite different.

He kind of starts to leap classes in a way.

He becomes a page boy in a great household.

So and this is a very desirable thing to get.

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