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Chaucer’s disputed legacy: new discoveries

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Jeffrey Chaucer - The Author of the Canterbury Tales

Ewan Roger is a principal records specialist for medieval and Tudor records at the National Archives in London. We're going to be talking about Jeffrey Chaucer at Ewan. He's perhaps best known to everyone as the kind of father of English poetry and English medieval literature. And so that we can piece together all these snippets to tell us the real Jeffrey Chaucer, who the man was behind these kind of epic poems and stories.

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