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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That's the kind of role.

Yeah.

So he's married to Philippa de Rohe.

They were married till the late 80s when she dies.

They had at least three children.

So we know of Thomas Chaucer, who later became Speaker in Parliament, had a very successful career.

Elizabeth, who became a nun in some extremely fancy nunneries, ended up in Barking, which was a lovely nunnery.

Yeah, lots of... Premium nuns.

Premium.

Very expensive to get into.

You had to pay a lot of money to get in and then you could dine off imported figs and read a lot of books.

And in many ways, it was much better than entering the sexual economy at that time.

And then Lewis, who we know much less about, although we do know that Chaucer wrote him a book.

Oh, that's nice.

Very nice.

Treatise on the astrolabe because his son wasn't very good at Latin when he was 10.

So Chaucer wrote him an English treatise to help him to understand his scientific object, the astrolabe, which helps you to tell the time.

What's interesting, or one of the things that's interesting, is that his wife is working, right?

People often assume that women aren't working at this time, but women have all kinds of different jobs.

His wife always has a salary.

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