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Exploring Chaucer Here and Now |
In this webinar, Professor Marion Turner introduces some of the themes of Chaucer Here and Now, the exhibition currently on view at the Weston Library. |
Marion Turner |
05 Apr 2024 |
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Chaucer 6 - Chaucer’s legacy |
Professor Marion Turner looks at Chaucer's legacy and the changes in societal perception of Chaucer. She also looks at online resources to help the beginner study Chaucer. |
Marion Turner, Karen Carey |
08 Feb 2024 |
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Chaucer 5 - The Language of Chaucer |
Professor Marion Turner delves into Geoffrey Chaucer's language and writing style. Chaucer championed a vernacular English form of writing, a departure from the prevalent use of Latin or French in poetry and the law. |
Marion Turner, Karen Carey |
08 Feb 2024 |
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Chaucer 4 - The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale |
Professor Marion Turner introduces one of the most famous and intricate tales from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales – "The Wife of Bath." |
Marion Turner, Karen Carey |
08 Feb 2024 |
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Chaucer 3 - The Miller’s Tale |
Professor Marion Turner introduces the ribald and humorous world of one of the Canterbury Tales' most famous stories – "The Miller's Tale." |
Marion Turner, Karen Carey |
08 Feb 2024 |
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Chaucer 2 - An Introduction to the Canterbury Tales |
Professor Marion Turner provides an in-depth exploration of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic work, the Canterbury Tales. |
Marion Turner, Karen Carey |
08 Feb 2024 |
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Chaucer 1 - An Introduction to the life and times of Geoffrey Chaucer |
In the introductory episode of "Chaucer for Beginners,” expert Professor Marion Turner introduces the life of writer Geoffrey Chaucer, shedding light on his background and life in 14th century England. |
Marion Turner, Karen Carey |
08 Feb 2024 |
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Meet the Manuscripts: Uncomfortable English Manuscripts |
In this lecture, we look at some beautiful, austere, and distinctively uncomfortable manuscripts and learn how the Middle Ages shaped the way we read today both in print and on screen. |
Dan Wakelin, Andrew Dunning, Helen Cook |
08 Nov 2021 |
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Patience Agbabi reading and conversation: podcast |
In this podcast the dynamic poet Patience Agbabi is in conversation about her Ted Hughes short-listed collection Telling Tales (2015), a rebellious reworking of Chaucer, and her contribution to the 2016 Refugee Tales project. |
Patience Agbabi, Elleke Boehmer, Marion Turner |
14 Jan 2020 |
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Book at Lunchtime: Chaucer: A European Life |
TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on Chaucer: A European Life by Professor Marion Turner. Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held fortnightly during term-time, with commentators from a range of disciplines. |
Marion Turner, Bart van Es, Helen Swift, John Watts |
15 Nov 2019 |
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Why should we study Chaucer? |
Dr Laura Ashe of Worcester College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes why we should still study Chaucer. |
Laura Ashe, Ilana Lassman |
31 Jul 2013 |
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Chaucer |
Professor Daniel Wakelin discusses the work of Chaucer and explains how he was one of the first to use everyday spoken English as a literary language in the 14th Century. |
Daniel Wakelin |
17 Apr 2012 |
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History of English Pronunciation |
Do we really know what Chaucer's poetry sounded like? Professor Simon Horobin introduces evidence that gives us an insight into the history of English pronunciation and explores what it tells us about how and why changes in language take place. |
Simon Horobin |
30 Nov 2011 |
