HIST-338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 55: Scholasticism, Geoffrey Chaucer
24 Nov 2020
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The new era. the medieval world showed signs of strain. It was after all an age of great achievement but not one of universal euphoria. By the end of the thirteenth century, some european governments, led by england, began to order the expulsion of jews from their realms; most of the others followed suit over the course of the fourteenth. Spain, the final holdout, did the same in 1492. These social fault lines, these signs of strain, did not lead inevitably to the dissolution of the medieval sense of unity nor did they necessarily reflect a dissolution already underway. Some of these changes are reflected in the thought and writings of four people: a philosopher, william of ockham (1288 1348); a political theorist, marsilius of padua (1275/80 1342); and two poets, dante alighieri (1266 1321) and geoffrey chaucer (1340 1400). It is likely that he then moved to the larger franciscan school in london to begin his philosophical training.
