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

They add bits in.

In a way, it's neither, because they're not making it overt, but also it was such a normal thing to do, to add different things in manuscripts.

Oh, yeah, it's obvious which ones are not by Chaucer.

The miller.

And so the knight is the person of highest secular, non-religious estate.

And so he tells the first story after a kind of a fixed lottery.

And then the host says, OK, well, the monk, the person of highest religious class, should tell the next story.

And then the miller says, no, no, no, no, no.

And the miller is very drunk and he says, I'm going to tell you a great story.

I'm going to go next, you know.

Now, we heard pick-a-purse, pickpocket.

Yeah.

And some of them, when you see it, so instead of saying pale, parlour, because the vowels have shifted, the great vowel shift has changed those kinds of things.

Or instead of I, you say E. So a mix of kind of saying it and reading it can often make it much more comprehensible.

So this is, I think, a really interesting passage.

So it's from The Knight's Tale.

It's talking about kind of dark elements of life.

But that line of the smiler with the knife under the cloak, that idea of hidden treachery coming.

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