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Geoffrey Chaucer

(c. 1343—1400) poet and administrator

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Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chaucer, Geoffrey (1343?–1400)   Reference library

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
502 words

(1343?–1400)

Founder of modern English poetry, Chaucer is also an example of the rise of the middle class

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