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Product details
- ISBN 9781789148633
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 13 May 2024
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This is a new account of the life and accomplishments of medieval England’s most famous poet, Geoffrey Chaucer. For over six centuries, Chaucer has epitomized poetic greatness, though in more recent years the lively and often risqué style of his best-known work, The Canterbury Tales, has made his name synonymous with bawdy humour. Nevertheless, beyond his poetic achievements, Chaucer assumed various roles, including those of royal attendant, soldier, customs officer and Justice of the Peace. Mary Flannery chronicles Chaucer’s journey during one of the most turbulent periods of English history, illuminating how he came to be known as not only the ‘father of English poetry’, but England’s ‘merry bard’.
Mary Flannery is Swiss National Science Foundation Eccellenza Professorial Fellow in English at the University of Bern. She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries, has published widely on medieval literature and culture, and writes regularly for the TLS. Her publications include Practising Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England (2019).
