ENGL 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Philippa Roet, Piers Plowman, Geoffrey Chaucer
22 Sep 2018
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Chaucer was born into a middle-class merchant family and at about age fifteen became a page to the countess of ulster. While serving her husband, lionel (the second son of king edward iii), during the hundred years war, chaucer was captured at the siege of riems and eventually ransomed. In 1365, he married philippa roet, sister-in-law of the powerful nobleman john of. Gaunt, who was the uncle and advisor of king richard ii. In 1367, chaucer was granted an annuity in the royal household and soon began traveling on diplomatic missions: to spain (1366), to france (1368), and to italy (1372 and 1378). During his travels he encountered works by french and italian authors, such as jean froissart, guillaume mechaut, dante, petrach, and. Chau(cid:272)er"s (cid:449)ork also sho(cid:449)s the i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e of t(cid:449)o tests that he tra(cid:374)slated into english from french and latin. At a time when many of his contemporaries were writing in.
