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

So he was captured.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

So he was captured outside Reams and then he was ransomed.

And so when you were a prisoner of war in those days, it didn't tend to be that bad.

Like he probably wasn't thrown into a prison cell.

You were kept in pretty decent conditions, especially if you weren't a peasant.

And then he was ransomed for £16.

Yes.

It is.

And we can compare it with other people.

You know, so there were some people who were ransomed for £50 at the same time.

But then there was also, you know, a carter with seven of his fellows who were ransomed as a job lot for £12.

So, you know, it's OK to be £16.

But it's, you know, there were people who were worth a lot more.

The King's paying all the ransoms.

I think he was fine, to be honest.

I think it was that rare.

You've seen half the population die in the plague.

I mean, so we see him just afterwards carrying letters and I think that was what he was better at, you know, across his life.

I mean, across his life, we do see him occasionally in these fighting situations, but much more commonly we see him doing things like diplomacy, secret business of the king, carrying letters, peace treaties.

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