Marion Turner

Marion Turner

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Ideas6

    Collage of cover art from the books in the article In dialogue: Writing women’s history We asked four of our authors the following question: What do we find when we read ‘women’ into histories that often exclude them? Read More
    An illustration of the Wife of Bath in a 15th century manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Marion Turner on The Wife of Bath Medieval women led varied, interesting, risky lives. They worked in a wide variety of jobs, were economically active, and were often independent. This is the world in which Chaucer’s Wife of Bath–one of the most famous and enduring female characters... Read More
    Ideas Podcast: The Wife of Bath, Marion Turner The Wife of Bath Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadi... Read More
    portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer Crossing Medieval borders: Chaucer and Europe At the moment, almost no one is crossing borders. We aren’t allowed to travel, and many of us are separated from family, missing our international colleagues, and wishing we could go on holiday. Read More
    Ideas Podcast: The life of Geoffrey Chaucer, A discussion with Marion Turner The life of Geoffrey Chaucer Uncovering important new information about Chaucer’s travels, private life, and the circulation of his writings, Marion Turner reconstructs in unprecedented detail the cosmopolitan world of Chaucer’s adventurous life, focusing on the places and space... Read More
    European Lake Marion Turner on Chaucer: A European Life More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life—yet his poems are anything but conventional. Read More