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Geoffrey Chaucer foi um dos mais importantes poetas da literatura inglesa medieval, conhecido principalmente por sua obra-prima “Os Contos da Cantuária”. Nascido por volta de 1343 em Londres, Chaucer teve uma carreira diversificada, atuando como diplomata, funcionário público e escritor. Sua obra é marcada por uma mistura de humor ...
The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer, is a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims as they travel from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket. Written almost entirely in verse (though there are shorter prose sections as well), each pilgrim was planned to tell four stories, two for the trip to the ...
18 de nov. de 2021 · Chaucer’s son, Thomas Chaucer, had a distinguished career, as chief butler to four kings, envoy to France, and Speaker of the House of Commons. Thomas’s daughter, Alice, married the Duke of Suffolk, and his great-grandson (Geoffrey’s great-great-grandson), John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, was the heir to the throne designated by Richard III before he was deposed.
Chaucer’s choice of Ewelme (just four miles from Wallingford) as the centre of his operations was dictated by the accidents of inheritance. His own patrimony was less than impressive, comprising no more than a single property in Golding Lane, London, and the lease of a house in the precincts of Westminster abbey.
29 de abr. de 2019 · Geoffrey Chaucer (l. c. 1343-1400 CE) was a medieval English poet, writer, and philosopher best known for his work The Canterbury Tales, a masterpiece of world literature. The Canterbury Tales is a work of poetry featuring a group of pilgrims from different social classes on a journey to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury who agree ...
26 de mai. de 2023 · Name: Philippa Roët. Birth: She was born around 1346 in Hainaut Province (today's Belgium). [1] Father: Payn (Paon) (Paganus) de Roet of Hainaut. Mother: Unknown. Marriage: September 1366 to Geoffrey Chaucer, in London, Middlesex, England. They had met as children when both were in service to Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster, at ...
Philippa de Roet (also known as Philippa Pan or Philippa Chaucer; c. 1346 – c. 1387) was an English courtier, the sister of Katherine Swynford (third wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster – a son of King Edward III) and the wife of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
