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 (Radio Edit) · 29 May 2026 podcast

But in fact, it's a really frivolous reference.

It's a reference to his fashion choices, to his clothes.

This is where the snazzy leggings that Greg mentioned earlier are in.

So the record is simply that Elizabeth de Bourgh bought him these clothes.

She buys him a poltok with these two-coloured hose, like these leggings, and some shoes.

And chroniclers in the early 1360s start to write about the fact that young men are going about wearing these clothes and that they are very tight and short and are exposing their genitals and buttocks inappropriately.

And indeed, some chroniclers said that they thought that the plague had returned to England because God was punishing people for wearing these outrageous clothes.

So essentially the whole household went to war.

So by this point, he seems to be working for Lionel, Elizabeth's husband.

And so the princes are all going to war.

They take their retinues with them.

And so the Hundred Years' War, which, you know, actually was longer than 100 years.

Yeah.

So it's supposed to start 1337, finish 1453.

Chaucer's over there, 1359, 1360.

Yes.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

So he was captured outside Reams and then he was ransomed for £16.

I mean, so we see him just afterwards carrying letters.

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