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

Even though a lot of the time her job is kind of hanging around, again, being kind of helpful, but also just being a lady in important women's chambers.

And when he's in royal service, he's getting an annuity from the king, also from other people at various times.

He's also paid in wine.

So he gets a pitcher of wine a day, which later on becomes a ton of wine a year, which is something like 252 gallons.

He probably didn't drink all that.

He was probably giving it out to people.

But, you know, wine is an ongoing thread.

It was probably about a gallon.

Yeah.

He knows languages.

So everyone's trilingual.

Every educated man is trilingual at this time.

But he also knew Italian, which he'd probably picked up from all the bankers and traders in Vintry Ward because he had a mercantile background.

So aristocrats much less likely to come across Italian.

He had Italian, which is probably why he was picked to go on the Italian mission.

Going on those Italian missions is where he then picks up and reads Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch.

And his reading of those poets enables him utterly to change English literature.

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