Geoffrey Chaucer — "And everich was worth to been an alderman, / For they hadde ynough of catel and …"
And everich was worth to been an alderman, / For they hadde ynough of catel and of rente.
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About Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400)
English poet, civil servant, and the father of English literature; The Canterbury Tales (~1387-1400) is the founding text of English-language storytelling. Closely associated with Giovanni Boccaccio (his Italian predecessor; the Decameron preceded the Canterbury Tales by ~40 years). For an intellectual contrast, see John Wycliffe, English theologian and Lollard reform-movement leader — Wycliffe and Chaucer were near-contemporaries in the same English Christian world — Chaucer's Wife of Bath and Pardoner are the canonical literary defense of fleshly humanity against the Lollard moral austerity that would later become English Puritanism. Earthy storytelling vs proto-Protestant moralism.
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General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, describing the Guildsmen. The narrator's ironic observation that their wealth alone made them worthy of high office is a 'weird' critique of social climbing.
Date: c. 1387-1400
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