Geoffrey Chaucer hath a blogge!

Post by **Meneltarma** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:52 pm

http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2006/03 ... werre.html

Click on that link to see the beginnings of his flame war with John Gower

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:04 pm

"Thou nedest getten a lyfe of thyne owene."

Post by **truehobbit** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:06 pm

Who's John Gower?

Post by **Jnyusa** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:06 am

Hobby, http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/gower.htm

That blogge is too clever for words.

Oh, excuse me ... for wordes.

Jn

Post by **truehobbit** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:22 am

Ah, thanks for the link, Jny!

However, it says there that Gower and Chaucer were good friends!

But it's a hilarious idea! The guy sure has too much time on his hands!

I liked the list of his favourite books:

De Consolatione Philosophiae, De Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae, De Planctu Naturae, Anticlaudianus, Aeneid, Thebaid, Metamorphoses, Romance of the Rose, Dante, Petrarch, Seabiscuit

I think that's what's called anti-climax or bathos!

Post by **Jnyusa** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:25 am

I liked the "Harvard Me" link ... it's a Harvard syllabus for a course on Chaucer.

Has anyone looked at the other links? Sounds as if a bunch of Medievalists got drunk over Spring Break and went wild on the internet.

Jn

Post by **Jnyusa** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:30 am

From the blogge of Katherine Swynforde:

gode God, I shoulde lerne to nat click to those thinges

Jn

Post by **vison** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:31 am

Yeah, they always do.

What a buncha wild and crazy guys.

Almost as bad as bankers or accountants.

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:31 am

"O, snap! Speken to the hande, Geofroi."

I need to get more sleep.

Post by **vison** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:58 am

Springe is sprunge,
The grasse is ryz.
I wondere where
The byrdies iz?

Sumer is icomen in!!!
Loude sing cuckoo . . . .

They's cuckoo, all right.

Post by **Meneltarma** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:04 am

I've been sniggering over the last three lines of the post since last night. I must get that on a t-shirt

*is also terribly proud of self for knowing who Cecilia Chaumpaigne was when she popped up in a comment*

Post by **ateelah** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:03 am

ITEM. For lyke VI monthes thow hadst me callen thou backe immediatlie aftir tho called me because thou hadst notte the minutes. Thou shouldst have gotten a goode celle phone planne lyk everybodi els in the worlde.

Post by **Jnyusa** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:07 am

is also terribly proud of self for knowing who Cecilia Chaumpaigne was when she popped up in a comment*

Who is she, Melly? I didn't know who any of those people were and I was too lazy to google all of them.

Jn

Post by **Meneltarma** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 6:24 pm

She's mentioned briefly in the short Chaucer biography I had to read. (We had to study part of the canterbury tales this year). She's a woman he was accused of kidnapping, possibly raping, though it's suggested that he kidnapped her on someone else's orders. There really isn't enough evidence either way...though I've always seen him as quite the feminist.

Post by **axordil** » Tue May 02, 2006 10:13 pm

That's because he WANTED you to see him as a feminist.

GC is the most elusive bastard in the canon, IMHO. Always another layer to peel in those innocuous little stories...especially if you know the history of the time.

I may have to get some of those tee shirts...