Geoffrey Chaucer — "Experience, thogh noon auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynogh for me To s…"
Experience, thogh noon auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynogh for me To speke of wo that is in mariage.
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"His palfrey was as broun as is a berye."
"he pricked her hard and deep, like one gone mad."
"For of his speche, which that he herde of old, / He was a verray Epicurien."
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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.