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Subject: Chaucer
Author: StClair (administrator)	[ Next Thread \| Previous Thread \| Next Message \| Previous Message ] Date Posted: 11:08:43 06/29/04 Tue The chaucer images are splendid. If you do have the patience, then DO copy them one at a time. It certainly won't take as long as it did to write them. Garde Bien [ Next Thread \| Previous Thread \| Next Message \| Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Chaucer

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exa
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Date Posted: 04:55:05 07/01/04 Thu

>It certainly won't take as long as it did to write them.
>
>Garde Bien

:)

More intrigue:

"Claims have been made for Geoffrey Chaucer's membership of the Inner Temple. Although yet to be corroborated, Chaucer was certainly familiar with the Temple, which is mentioned in his Prologue to the Canterbury Tales."
http://www.barcouncil.org.uk/document.asp?languageid=1&documentid=1026

[Chaucer, Geoffrey (c.1340-1400)] Membership of IT claimed by sixteenth century antiquary but not corroborated Poet, author, courtier and civil servant. JP; MP Mentioned a 'manciple of a Temple' in the 'Prologue to the Canterbury Tales'.
http://www.innertemple.org.uk/history/famous_members.html

Effigy of William Marshall, Temple Church
This picture of William Marshall, first Earl of Pembroke, shows a typical effigy of a knight. Marshall (1146-1219) was a Knight Templar and Regent of England from 1216-1219, hence his inclusion inside the Temple Church. This photo is intended to give one a sense of how Chaucer may have envisioned his Knight in The Canterbury Tales, Palamon and Arcite in "The Knight's Tale," and Troylus. Notice the presence of the chain-mail armor ("habergeoun") and tunic ("gypoun") which hangs along Marshall's right side. According to the description of the Knight in the "General Prologue" (GP 75-76):

Of fustian he wered a gypoun
Al bismotered with his habergeoun

http://www.umkc.edu/lib/engelond/visual.htm

">http://www.umkc.edu/lib/engelond/images/photo23.jpg"

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[> Subject: Re: Chaucer
Author: StClair (administrator) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 19:06:36 07/02/04 Fri Interesting to note that Chaucer can be read quite clearly with a Scots accent. Garde Bien [ Post a Reply to This Message ]