Chaucer: Thrones, Rivalries and Women of Substance

Undergraduate

Chaucer's writings explored through the intense rivalries of medieval city life, the violent and glamorous world of aristocratic politics and war with Kings and Dukes of France, and the role of women as lovers, patrons, sharp business managers, and religious recluses. The crowds, sounds, and visual stimuli of medieval London and Westminster, of palaces, gardens, cathedrals and nunneries, examined alongside the vast array of his literary genres including dream visions, love epic, lyrics, and comic, satiric, and religious narrative. Chaucer's sense of the writer's craft as a means of depicting the comic as well as emotional resonance of precarious living in a time of plague, war and civil rebellion. WR , HU MW 1:30pm-2:20pm