Professor Marion Turner
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 29 May
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came to England about 1348.
And, you know, it completely dwarfs the pandemic that we've been through.
If you imagine a pandemic that wiped out maybe a third, maybe a half of the population really quickly.
And the Near East.
It's hugely dramatic.
And yes, Chaucer lost several relatives, but not his parents, not his immediate family.
And what then happened to Chaucer's family is typical of what happened to the country as a whole.
Because if you survived, although probably psychologically you might have been in a bad way, but materially things were quite good for you.
So both his parents inherited property and land and money from their relatives who had died in the plague.
Yeah.
So there's a lot of social mobility after the plague.
It's actually the late 14th century is an amazing time for social mobility.
People can move jobs if their employer isn't paying a decent wage.
They can go to another employer or they can move to the city.
The government passed lots of laws to try and stop employees from asking for higher wages, but it didn't work.
Yes.
So we've got massive inflation and wage inflation.
If you were alive, you were then doing well.
He sort of goes... He doesn't, no, he does something quite different.
He kind of starts to leap classes in a way.
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