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Thomas Chaucer, né vers 1367 et mort à Ewelme le 18 novembre 1434 [1], est un diplomate et homme politique anglais. Un proche de la maison de Lancastre , il est le président de la Chambre des communes du Parlement d'Angleterre à cinq reprises entre 1407 et 1421, un record « inégalé jusqu'au XVIII e siècle ».
Thomas Chaucer. This is an unkown contemporary artist's rendering of Thomas Chaucer. Note that this artist has chosen to employ the pattern from Chaucer's coat of arms as the template for Thomas's clothing. This is a brass rubbing of the tomb portraits of Thomas Chaucer and his wife Maud Burghersh (Ewelme Church, 1436).
Há 6 dias · Written at the end of his life, The Canterbury Tales is Geoffrey Chaucer’s best-known work. It is a collection of 24 stories told by a group of 30 pilgrims who travel from Southwark to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Thomas Beckett. Chaucer did not complete the work before he died.
Joan Mohun decided to sell Matilda on, to John of Gaunt. Matilda was co-heiress to her father’s share of the Burghersh lands, so she was a reasonably valuable prize. Gaunt bestowed her on Thomas Chaucer in marriage, Thomas being, of course, the nephew of his close friend and eventual third wife, Katherine de Roet.
Rewriting Chaucer Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400–1602 Thomas A. Prendergast and Barbara Kline, eds. This collection of original essays examines how the idea of an authentic Chaucerian text was reimagined and reproduced by medieval and early modern scribes and editors to satisfy and shape the cultural expectations of their audiences.
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340 – 1400) was an English poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, and diplomat, widely regarded as one of the greatest poets in the English language. He is best known for his masterpiece, “ The Canterbury Tales, ” a collection of stories written in Middle English, which provides a vivid portrait of medieval life and society.
Thomas Chaucer (c. 1367–1434), was the Speaker of the British House of Commons on three occasions and son of Geoffrey Chaucer and Philippa (de) Roet. Thomas seems to have done well from his father's standing as both a poet and also an administrator. This is despite suggestions that Geoffrey Chaucer had fallen out of favour with Henry IV who ...
