Gone Medieval
Gone Medieval
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Geoffrey Chaucer: Father of English Literature
37 minutes Posted Feb 1, 2024 at 3:00 am.
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Geoffrey Chaucer is perhaps medieval England’s most famous writer and poet. Now a new exhibition at the Bodleian Library in Oxford is setting out to give him greater breadth and depth than just The Canterbury Tales


To talk more about the ‘Father of English Literature’ with Matt Lewis is its curator Professor Marion Turner.


This episode was produced by Rob Weinberg.


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