Professor Marion Turner

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759 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 29 May

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

There they are wearing their appalling outfits, you know, not like it used to be.

Yeah, exactly.

And it's great because, you know, people think of Chaucer often as the father figure of English literature.

But, you know, here he is as a teenager.

Everyone is a teenager at some point.

I like to think of him as this fashionable Chaucer.

But also it is so interesting to think that unlike teenagers today, he's not choosing his own clothes to express his own identity.

He's being told what to wear.

He's being paid in clothes and food and a place to sleep at this at this time.

guy on a horse okay yeah yeah i mean so essentially the whole household went to war so by this point he seems to be working for lionel elizabeth's husband and so the princes are all going to war they take their retinues of course with them yeah um so he goes over because it can get boring up on that hill when you're watching if there's a gap in the battle you need someone for a bit of banter

Yeah.

And he did.

But he was fighting.

He did go off to fight.

Yeah.

And so the Hundred Years' War, which, you know, actually was longer than 100 years.

So it's supposed to start 1337, finish 1453.

Chaucer's over there, 1359, 1360.

He was a fighter.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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