Bundle 6: Chaucer and his World

In this bundle you will

• Learn how pandemic shaped the literary and cultural landscape of late medieval Europe and reflect on how “their” pandemic relates to “ours”;
• Meet Geoffrey Chaucer, brilliant poet, troubled and troubling human being;
• Analyze two of the most controversial characters and stories in Chaucer’s magnum opus, The Canterbury Tales, and use them to think about relations between the sexes—then and now; and
• See how contemporary authors have appropriated The Canterbury Tales to advocate for compassion, tolerance, and social justice.