Professor Marion Turner

speaker

759 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 29 May

Professor Marion Turner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

You're Dead to Me · Geoffrey Chaucer (Radio Edit) · 29 May 2026 podcast

He's also very influenced by the world around him.

There's this idea that you need both.

You know, you need to read the books.

He's steeped in literary influences from all kinds of places, but he's also interested in contemporary society.

And I think he does take a lot of inspiration from the things that are going on around him.

So we can link things like his great interest in different voices, in the common voice of

We might link that to things like the development of the Speaker in Parliament at the time.

And then, you know, this is also the time when we see insurgent voices, which can be productive, but can also be really problematic.

So the Great Revolt, usually known as the Peasants' Revolt, though it wasn't really mainly peasants, it was lots of different people.

But that also happens during Chaucer's lifetime.

Yeah, I mean, it's a really interesting case.

It's also really interesting in terms of letting us know what's still out there to find in the records.

So this is a case in which Chaucer was essentially accused of something called raptus in Latin, which in different cases is sometimes abduction is sometimes rape.

A woman called Cecily Champagne released him from further actions relating to her raptus.

But there was a lot of debate about what the word in the document meant, because in some documents it means abduction.

But a couple of years ago, and this is how exciting the world of Chaucer studies is.

So two scholars, Spassi and Specky and Ewan Roger, found some new documents.

And what they found was that Cecily Champagne and Chaucer were on the same side of this law case.

And they were both defendants together.

And they employed the same lawyer.

Showing 141–160 of 759 · page 8 of 38