HIST-338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 45: Geoffrey Chaucer, Christine De Pizan
24 Nov 2020
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The canterbury tales, assuming that what we have of it is representative of chaucer"s overall intentions for the work, surrenders even the attempt to assert unity and order, In light of such an awareness, a recognition of an unravelled world, dante responds by willing an order of his own making upon the universe, Chaucer reacts by celebrating, laughing at, bemoaning, and wondering at the individuals caught on the road to nowhere. She was raised at court and given a solid education in languages and literature; growing up as a commoner amid aristocratic trappings, Christine combined the hard-working professionalism of the urban classes with the idealism of noble culture. Her lively demeanor and royal connections made her an attractive figure; she was courted by numerous suitors at the age of fourteen was married to a nobleman from picardy. Christine might very well have ended up living a comfortable, if unremarkable, life as a patronness of a minor aristocratic court.
