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	Geoffrey Chaucer - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Chaucer's father had connections which enabled his son to become a page to Elizabeth de Burgh, the Countess of Ulster from 1357 onward; later Geoffrey served in the royal court of Edward III as a valet to Lionel of Antwerp.
		Chaucer wrote poetry as a diversion from his job as Comptroller of the Customs for the port of London, and also translated such important works as The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris (extended by Jean de Meun), and Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy.
		Chaucer wrote a Treatise on the Astrolabe, for the son of a friend, that describes the form and use of that instrument in detail.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Geoffry_Chaucer (709 words)

	Chaucer - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Chaucer served as controller of customs for London from 1374 to 1386 and clerk of the king's works from 1389 to 1391, in which post he was responsible for maintenance of royal buildings and parks.
		Chaucer wrote for and may have read his works aloud to a select audience of fellow courtiers and officials, which doubtless sometimes included members of the royal family.
		Chaucer greatly increased the prestige of English as a literary language and extended the range of its poetic vocabulary and meters.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562849/Chaucer_Geoffrey.html (1306 words)

	Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Chaucer’s chief works during this time are the Book of the Duchess, an allegorical lament written in 1369 on the death of Blanche, wife of John of Gaunt, and a partial translation of the Roman de la Rose.
		Chaucer’s second period (up to c.1387) is called his Italian period because during this time his works were modeled primarily on Dante and Boccaccio.
		Chaucer was a master storyteller and craftsman, but because of a change in the language after 1400, his metrical technique was not fully appreciated until the 18th cent.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ch/Chaucer.html (693 words)

	Geoffrey Chaucer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chaucer was born around 1343 probably in London, although the exact date and location is not known.
		In 1324 John Chaucer, Geoffrey's father, was kidnapped by an aunt in the hope of marrying the twelve year-old boy to her daughter; an attempt to keep property in Ipswich.
		Chaucer was buried in Westminster Abbey in London as was his right owing to the jobs he had performed and the new house he had leased nearby on 24 December 1399.
	wikipedia.com /wiki/Geoffry_Chaucer (2815 words)

	Geoffrey Chaucer - Books and Biography
		Chaucer was the son of a prosperous wine merchant and deputy to the kings's butler, and his wife Agnes.
		Chaucer was so valued as a skilled professional soldier that his ransom, £16, then a tidy sum, was paid by his friends and King Edward.
		Chaucer was buried in Westminster Abbey, in the part of the church which afterwards came to be called Poet's Corner.
	www.readprint.com /author-18/Geoffrey-Chaucer (847 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Geoffrey Chaucer
		Chaucer was married before 1374; probably the Philippa Chaucer named in the queen's grant of 1366 was then Geoffrey Chaucer's wife (Lounsbury, Studies in Chaucer, I, 95-7).
		Lewis Chaucer, the "litel sonne Lowys", for whom the "Astrolale" was written, is supposed to have died in childhood.
		From about his twenty-sixth year Chaucer was frequently employed on important diplomatic missions; the year 1372-3 marks the turning point of his literary life, for then he was sent to Italy; circumstances make it extremely probable that either in Florence or at Padua he made Petrarch's acquaintance (Lounsbury, Studies, I, 67-68).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03642b.htm (1955 words)

	Encyclopedia: Geoffrey-Chaucer
		Thomas Chaucer (1367â€“1434), was the Speaker of the British House of Commons on three occasions and son of Geoffrey Chaucer and Philippa (de) Roet.
		A Treatise on the Astrolabe is a medieval essay on the astrolabe by Chaucer.
		Chaucer College Canterbury is an independent graduate college for Japanese students, founded in 1992 by Hiroshi Kawashima on the Canterbury campus of the University of Kent in the United Kingdom.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Geoffrey_Chaucer (8659 words)

	Geoffrey Chaucer - Biography and Works
		Geoffrey Chaucer (born 1340/44, died 1400) is remembered as the author of The Canterbury Tales, which ranks as one of the greatest epic works of world literature.
		Chaucer made a crucial contribution to English literature in using English at a time when much court poetry was still written in Anglo-Norman or Latin.
		In fine, Chaucer is content to picture a world in which the rain falleth alike upon the just and the unjust, and in which the latter seem to have a liberal share of the umbrellas.
	www.online-literature.com /chaucer (1697 words)

	Chronology of Geoffrey Chaucer's life and times
		Chaucer is captured by the French at the siege of Reims.
		Chaucer is first recorded as a member of the royal household on 20 June 1367 when he was granted a royal annuity for life of 20 pounds.
		Chaucer is appointed Controller of the Customs for hides, skins and wool in the port of London; he is granted a lease on a dwelling above Aldgate.
	www.librarius.com /chauchro.htm (1858 words)

	Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400) - "The Canterbury Tales" (in middle english and modern english)
		Chaucer rose in royal employment and became a knight of the shire for Kent.
		Chaucer died in October 1400 and was buried in Westminster Abbey in London.
		Chaucer probably wrote the poem to commemorate the death of Blanche of Lancaster, John of Gaunt's wife.
	www.librarius.com (1135 words)

	Chaucer Geoffery Biography - Canterbury Geoffry Chaucer Tale : Life Chaucer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Chaucer was born in London, although the exact date and location of his birth are not known.
		In 1324 John Chaucer, Geoffrey's father, was kidnapped by an aunt in the hope of marrying the twelve year-old boy to her daughter in an attempt to keep property in Ipswich.
		There are no details of Chaucer's early life and education but compared to his near contemporary poets, William Langland and The Pearl Poet, his life is well documented, with nearly five hundred written items testifying to his career.
	www.news2be.info /books/geoffrey-chaucer.htm (358 words)

	Geoffrey Chaucer at LiteratureClassics.com -- essays, resources
		Chaucer was the first in a tradition of English poets who would play a significant role in the development of literature.
		The name Chaucer, a French form of the Latin calcearius, a shoe11-taker, is found in London and the eastern counties as early as the second half of the 13th century.
		Chaucer's Shipman -- A brief analysis of the shipman in Geoffrey Chaucer's prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
	www.literatureclassics.com /authors/Chaucer (747 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Geoffrey Chaucer
		Chaucer's next work was Troilus and Criseyde, which was influenced by The Consolation of Philosophy, written by the Roman philosopher Boethius in the early sixth century and translated into English by Chaucer.
		Chaucer did not complete the full plan for the tales, and surviving manuscripts leave some doubt as to the exact order of the tales that remain.
		Of Chaucer's two daughters, Elizabeth became a nun, while Agnes was a lady-in-waiting for the coronation of Henry IV in 1399.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_geoffrey_chaucer.html (905 words)

	Geoffrey Chaucer
		Chaucer wrote poetry as a diversion from his job as Comptroller of the Customs for the port of London, and also translated such important works as The Romance of the Rose[?], written in French by Guillaume de Lorris[?] and enlarged years later by Jean de Meun[?], and Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius' De consolatione philosophiae[?].
		He is buried at Westminster Abbey in London, and was the first tenant of the Poets' Corner[?].
		See also: Literature, Middle English, Middle English literature[?], Middle English poetry[?]; Chaucer College, a graduate school of the University of Kent, England; North Petherton.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ge/Geoffry_Chaucer.html (291 words)

	Referat - Bericht - Geoffry Chaucer - Hausaufgabe - Biographie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		About Geoffrey Chaucer’s birthday one have no direct knowledge but it is known that he was one of the greatest English poets, famous for his masterpiece “The Canterbury Tales”, which represented one of the most important influences on the development of English literature.
		Chaucer used “Teseida” in the fragment “Anelida and Arcite”, “The Parliament of Fowls” and the “Knight’s Tale”.
		Owing to a possible illness, Chaucer died on 25 October 1400 in London and was buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey.
	www.paperboy.de /referatanzeigen-125.html (1415 words)

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		It is highly probable that this gentleman was father to our Geoffry, and the supposition is strengthened by Chaucer's first application, after leaving the university and inns of law, being to the Court; nor is it unlikely that the service of the father should recommend the son.
		The duke being dejected with the troubles in which he was involved, began to reflect on his vicious course of life, and particularly his keeping that lady as his concubine; which produced a resolution of putting her out of his house, and he made a vow to that purpose.
		Chaucer, thus reduced, and weary of the perpetual turmoils at court, retired to Woodstock, to enjoy a studious quiet; where he wrote his excellent treatise of the Astrolabe; but notwithstanding the severe treatment of the government, he still retained his loyalty, and strictly enjoined his son to pray for the king.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/0/5/9/10598/10598.txt (13597 words)

	chaucer essays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Chaucer is mocking the proclaimed dignity because she was not supposed to be born; her father was a priest who could not have sex.
		Chaucer is using this irony to cleverly show the flaws of this character and the flaws of the Church as a whole.
		Chaucer is effective in sharing his opinions of the Church as he deviously mocks its corruption.
	english.sxu.edu /~crowe/steach/chaucer_essays.html (5162 words)

	Geoffrey Chaucer
		Geoffrey Chaucer is remembered as the author of Canterbury Tales, which ranks as one of the greatest epic works of world literature.
		Chaucer's writing developed from a period of French influence in the late 1360s, through his 'middle period' of both French and Italian Influences, to the last period.
		Chaucer's innovation was to use such a diverse assembly of narrators, whose stories are interlinked with interludes in which the characters talk with each other, revealing much about themselves.
	kirjasto.sci.fi /chaucer.htm (1442 words)

	Island of Freedom - Geoffrey Chaucer
		Geoffrey Chaucer is recognized as one of England's greatest poets.
		Modern study of the setting of his art has made clear that in his work there is a range of subtlety surpassing that of all other medieval writers, with the exception of Dante.
		By 1367 Chaucer was a yeoman, or valet (vallectus), in Edward III's household; in 1368 he is mentioned as the king's armiger (esquire).
	www.island-of-freedom.com /CHAUCER.HTM (1200 words)

	Chaucer
		Chaucer was buried at the entrance to St. Benedicts Chapel in the South Transept of the Abbey.
		Chaucer's wife was the sister of John of Gaunt's third wife and as a result John of Gaunt became Chaucer's patron for many years.
		Chaucer held many positions in the court of Richard II and frequently travelled abroad on diplomatic missions.
	www.poetsgraves.co.uk /chaucer.htm (301 words)

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		The government still pursuing their resentment against him and his friends, they were obliged to leave Zealand, and Chaucer being unable to bear longer the calamities of poverty and exile, and finding no security wherever he fled, chose rather to throw himself upon the laws of his country, than perish abroad by hunger and oppression.
		The duke being dejected with the troubles in which he was involved, began to reflect on his vicious course of life, and particularly his keeping that lady as his concubine; which produced a resolution of putting her out of his house, and he made a vow to that purpose.
		Chaucer, thus reduced, and weary of the perpetual turmoils at court, retired to Woodstock, to enjoy a studious quiet; where he wrote his excellent treatise of the Astrolabe; but notwithstanding the severe treatment of the government, he still retained his loyalty, and strictly enjoined his son to pray for the king.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/0/5/9/10598/10598.txt (13597 words)

	§1. Chaucer’s Life. VII. Chaucer. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and ...
		But indirect evidence of various kinds fixes it between 1328, when his father, John Chaucer, was still unmarried, and 1346, before which date his own statement, at the Scroope-Grosvenor suit in 1386, of his age as “forty years or more” would place it.
		We first hear of Chaucer himself (or, at least, of a Geoffrey Chaucer who is not likely to be anyone else) in 1357, when he received a suit of livery as member of the household of Edward III’s son Lionel (afterwards duke of Clarence), or of his wife Elizabeth de Burgh.
		Of Chaucer himself—or, at least, of a Geoffrey Chaucer who, as it is very important to remember, and as has not always been remembered, may not be the same in all cases—a good many facts are preserved, though these facts are in very few cases, if any, directly connected with his literary position.
	www.bartleby.com /212/0701.html (1535 words)

	Mittelalter-Taverne.de :: Thema anzeigen - Geoffry Chaucer
		Chaucer übernahm aus der literarischen Tradition der romanischen Sprachen den Endreim, experimentierte mit verschiedenen französischen und italienischen Gedichtformen und passte sie den grammatischen und rhythmischen Eigenarten der englischen Sprache an.
		Chaucer beschließt das Gedicht mit dem Ratschlag an junge Liebende, sich statt der Liebe auf Erden der himmlischen Liebe Gottes zuzuwenden; diese Aussage ist wie das gesamte Gedicht deutlich von der Philosophie Boethius' geprägt.
		Chaucers Stil wurde oftmals imitiert, und einige Dichtungen seiner Nachahmer galten bis in das 20.
	www.mittelalter-taverne.de /forum/viewtopic.php?t=126 (2990 words)

	Authorizing the reader in Chaucer's House of Fame
		The incompleteness of the poem makes Chaucer's would-be conclusions unclear, but it would seem that the point of this dream vision is to prove that the basis and founding measure of all our practices and ideals should be not the "authorities," but the self.
		Chaucer's farcical rendition of the ontological impact of words, however, at one and the same time deauthorizes Augustine and parodies the efforts of the scholastics, whose attempts to "fix" the meaning of the great texts can thus be seen as amounting to nothing less than interpretive legislation.
		Chaucer's treatment of the legendary materials in Book 1 emphasizes that the behavior legitimized by Virgil, though (initially at least) endorsed by both men and women, is based on a discourse that glorifies one mode of behavior at the cost of marginalizing or oppressing others.
	www.geocities.com /salferrat/chaucam.htm (5291 words)

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		Chaucer, as a young lad, was sent to one of the city's grammar schools and learned the way of the words, as it was called in those days.
		Geoffry Chaucer started to get into writing when Kind Edward the Third started sending him to Italy and France on diplomatic missions.
		Chaucer wrote the The Canterbury Tales, which are a collection of five stories; The Nuns Priest Tale, The Pardoner's Tale, The Reeve's Tale, the Wife of Bath's Tale, and the Franklin's Tale.
	www.yesnet.yk.ca /schools/projects/middleages2000/medievallit/chaucer.html (249 words)

	Talk:Chaucer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		I get 139,000 hits on google on "chaucer -geoffrey" and at least some of them are not about geoffrey chaucer.
		This should be a redirect to Geoffrey Chaucer, period end of quotation.
		I'm moving that to a disambiguation block in Geoffry Chaucer unless you can think of something better than that.
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