#Chaucer

[illustratus]

The Canterbury Pilgrims by Paul Hardy

#the canterbury tales #art #illustration #paul hardy #canterbury #pilgrims #england #medieval #middle ages #english #geoffrey chaucer #chaucer #history #canterbury tales #tales of caunterbury #st thomas becket #saint thomas becket #kingdom of england

[medievalistsnet]

#medieval #chaucer #british library #manuscripts

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

in answer to @elgooso - #so. prev tags #what. what do you mean#home of rimming?

on this post about Canterbury and my tag: #HOME OF RIMMING

SO.

Calling Canterbury the home of rimming (or "the home of the chocolate smooch") is an in-joke from when we went to visit Canterbury during first year of uni.

BUT WHY, YOU ASK?

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (which, admittedly, happen on the road between London and Canterbury, not in the city itself, but whatever) features The Miller's Tale.

There's a bunch of different things that happen in The Miller's Tale, but for our purposes the key bit is this. Warning - this does, I guess, count as SA, but this is a story told for gross-out reasons by drunken idiot. The point is that its crass and terrible.

Anyway!

Alisoun, who has a husband but is being wooed by two other dudes anyway, is sick of Absolon (guy #2) hanging out under her window, singing to him, and begging her for a kiss. At the climax of the poem, he's outside asking for a kiss, so she sticks her arse out of the window and he kisses her right on the bumhole. With relish.

Here's the key bit of the poem, and a Harvard translation:

Original: And at the wyndow out she putte hir hole and Absolon, hym fil no bet ne wers but with his mouth he kiste hir naked ers ful savourly, er he were war of this. Abak he stirte, and thoughte it was amys, For wel he wiste a womman hath no berd.

Translation into modern English: And at the window out she put her hole, and Absolon, to him it happened no better nor worse, but with his mouth he kissed her naked ass with great relish, before he was aware of this. Back he jumped, and thought it was amiss, for well he knew a woman has no beard.

What really got me was the ful savourly part. And the part where Chaucer specifies that it's her hole, not just her bum or her bumcheek. Because of this delightful tale, we started to call Canterbury the home of rimming. Look, we were young and very, very silly.

Anyway! There we go. Go forth with this knowledge, and kiss people's buttholes ful savourly 🍑

#canterbury tales #chaucer #literary history

[maniculum]

This is possibly the dumbest way I've spent an evening recently, but nonetheless, here's a thing.

I made all of the other guys Kens, but Chaucer gets to be an honorary Barbie. I don't know how he would feel about that.

To spare those of you who don't have long posts automatically trimmed, I'm putting the rest below a cut.

#barbie #barbie selfie generator #canterbury tales #chaucer #medieval #medieval literature

[johnnyappleseede]

Vintage Penguin Classics

“Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure”, 1985 print

“Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings”, 1982 print

“Utopia”, 1965 print

“The Canterbury Tales”, 1967 print

#vintage #Penguin Classics #Chaucer #Fanny Hill #Uncle Remus #Utopia #American

[liketwoswansinbalance]

I had been reading sections of The Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English, but I also listened to part of this New English translation of "The Knight's Tale," and these excerpts coincidentally sounded exactly like Fall Rhian!

#school for good and evil #fall of the school for good and evil #rhian #rhian mistral #the storian #storian #sge #sfgae #the school for good and evil #tsfgae #fotsge #fotsfgae #my post #the canterbury tales #geoffrey chaucer #chaucer #the knight's tale #palamon

[insidemyfavoritemanuscript]

Episode 3: Megan Cook on Chaucer, Weird Spelling, and the Long History of GG

Pilgrim portrait of the Monk from CUL MS Gg.4.27.1

In Episode 3 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Dot sits down with Megan Cook, professor of English and book historian, to talk about Cambridge, University Library MS Gg.4.27.1. GG (as Megan affectionately calls it) is an early effort to bring together Chaucer’s major works outside of London, the writing might indicate something interesting about the person who wrote it, and it had a long and interesting history after it was written around 1425.

Listen here, or wherever you find your podcasts.

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Below the cut are photos of some of the specific things we discuss in this episode.

Folio 5r, the opening page:

Zoomed in to show the location of the erased signature:

Folio 352r, pilgrim portrait of the Monk:

Zoomed in view of the Monk:

Monk from the Ellesmere Manuscript (for contrast):

Folio 433r, Lechery and Chastity from the Parson’s Tale:

Zoomed in view of Lechery and Chastity:

Opening of the Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale with excised initial, recto:

Opening of the Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale with excised initial, verso (the back of the same leaf):

Parchment stub (protected on either side by thin paper) of the leaf that contained the opening to Troilus and (likely) a full-page miniature:

Holland’s added glossary:

Holland’s portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer:

Cook, Megan L. (2017) "Joseph Holland and the Idea of the Chaucerian Book," Manuscript Studies: Vol. 1: Iss. 2, Article 2. Available at: https://repository.upenn.edu/mss_sims/vol1/iss2/2

The Poet and the Antiquaries: Chaucerian Scholarship and the Rise of Literary History, 1532-1635 (Penn, 2019)

Finally, as promised in the outro, a link to Megan’s essay “Dirtbag Medievalism,” LA Review of Books, July 14 2021.

#medieval #manuscript #chaucer #podcast #inside my favorite manuscript #imfm

[midsummernightsmemes]

Troilus and Criseyde ...

#troilus and criseyde #troilus and cressida #chaucer #geoffrey chaucer #meme #memes #funny memes #literature memes #literature meme #literature #history #medieval history #history meme

[evilasiangenius]

Don't worry about abandoning your wip. Chaucer abandoned his wip for 623 slutty, slutty years and people are still talking about it.

#chaucer #canterbury tales #writing #wip stuff

[astranix]

give me ur best analysis of chaucer's wife of bath

#pls #wife of bath #geoffrey chaucer #chaucer #poem #poetry #poems and poetry #poems #writing #literature #old english

[wronghands1]

#chaucer #canterbury tales #literature #reading #books #barista #influencer #podcaster #drone #wronghands #john atkinson #webcomic #cartoon #book humor

[medievalistsnet]

#medieval #books #chaucer #the canterbury tales

[milk-and-violets]

(a rare personal post!! in the year of our lord 2024??)

I'm in the process of editing and improving my backlog of poetry from undergrad, and I'm currently working on ones from my medieval reinterpretations (read: Chaucerian) class.

#canterbury tales #chaucer #once in a blue-moon jane posting

[mysterious-secret-garden]

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. William Morris, Kelmscott Press. Illustrations by Sir Edward Burne-Jones.

#Edward Burne Jones #Chaucer #William Morris #Kelmscott Press #wolf #eating #dead

[ancientorigins]

Medieval accounts of St. Valentine's life make no mention of his association with love. So how did we get to the traditions of today? The answer likely lies with the medieval poet Chaucer, who linked the saint to courtly love in his poem Parliament of Fowls.

#St Valentine #love #poet #saint #Chaucer #ancient #history #ancient origins

[laertesbean]

Why do my English professors have to be so extra naming each week? 😳

10/10

Can't wait 😂

#dark academia #english literature #literature #light academia #writing inspiration #text post #creative writing #books & libraries #book quotes #poetry #college memes #college #uni memes #uni #university #geoffrey chaucer #chaucer