It is a rare gift and privilege in our busy world to spend an entire semester contemplating a single text. Our work this semester will be challenging, especially for those of you who are reading Middle English for the first time. But it will also be immensely rewarding!
We'll spend our time not only working with Chaucer's text, but also the discovering the world in which he wrote it. In addition, we'll learn about the social issues that seem to have weighed on his mind and the stories that must have captured his imagination.
I look forward to sharing this pilgrimage with you all!
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| Huntington Library MS EL 26 C9, f. 153v. from the DIgital Scriptorium Database, UC Berkeley |
