Geoffrey Chaucer (1343鈥�1400) was ahead of his time. Having visited Italy twice on diplomatic missions he modeled a significant number of his narratives on works by Dante, Boccaccio,听and Petrarch, long before these writers were 鈥榙iscovered鈥� during the English Renaissance.

This lecture will consider Chaucer鈥檚 encounter with Italian culture and how it prompted a rebirth of his creative outlook.

Biography:
Peter Brown is Professor of English Medieval Literature at the University of Kent and Academic Director of its Paris School of Arts and Culture. He has recently edited A New Companion to Chaucer (Wiley鈥揃lackwell, 2019) and is the author of Geoffrey Chaucer (Oxford University Press, 2011). He has published on a wide range of topics to do with the cultural and historical context of medieval literature.听
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