The Canterbury Tales (TRIH ep 416, part 4)
1387 · Resource
This episode examines Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales as both a literary masterpiece and a vivid window onto late 14th-century England. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss Chaucer’s biography—his London mercantile background, survival of the Black Death, service at court, continental travel, capture and ransom in 1360, and patronage connections to John of Gaunt.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1387
- Peasants' Revolt in England (1381)
- Black Death (1346)
- Hundred Years' War (1337)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Mehmed II (1432)
- Forbidden City built (1406)
- Sultanate of Malacca founded (1400)
- Joseon dynasty (1392)