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Chaucer context - Coggle Diagram
Chaucer context
Social status
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Chaucer saw a multitude of social classes -> Was a page boy at 14 to Prince of Ulster, but age 23 he was in the King's diplomatic service
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Relationships
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Phillipa De Roet -> Chaucer's wife, he stated that he would never again 'fall into the trap' of marriage and never honoured or acknowledged her death in any writing.
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Selfishness
Chaucer's own selfishness -> Perhaps an affair with Cecily Champain, there are records of a 'Little Lewis Chaucer'. Settled out in court to maintain his own status
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Gender battle
Empowered women in Chaucer's life -> Cecily Champain who took Chaucer to court for 'Raptus' annd supposedly settled out of Court
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