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In fact, the English knew about the very method of fishing that local people used. William Bradford wrote that Tisquantum "trod them out with his feet", which was a common fishing technique in England.

It shows up in Chaucer's writing, & in John Donne's, and other places. 3/6

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2021-11-24

We couldn't let this day pass without announcing that we've digitised another manuscript of Canterbury Tales.

You can view it in full here:
https://t.co/2Qp11uKzJJ

And for a bonus, a near-contemporary portrait from Harley MS 4866
https://t.co/I10LGqErVr https://t.co/TJanhoVyzN

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2021-10-25

New on 's online image resource! Four studies by Edward Burne-Jones for Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women', 1863. Cressida, Constance, Dorigen & Griselda.
https://t.co/ZnKuc3AtO3

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2021-06-16


is in fact a re-boot of the romance .... which also reappears in the Wife of Bath's Tale in .... the moral of the tale being that what women want most is

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2020-09-01

I've been playing around with character designs for The Miller's Tale, the raunchiest of Chaucer's work and one of my favorites

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2020-08-26

Something different for a Sunday! This was my senior thesis from yeeaars back, kind of a mash-up between Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and The Dover Boys. It has a very "early 2000s" illustration look to it, I know, haha.

Sadly the raws are on some forgotten Zip disk somewhere

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2020-03-16

The River Neckinger swirls with stories. Is it named for a water spirit or the noose that hung here? Did Cnut change its course in 1016? Chaucer's pilgrims crossed it. Dickens took Twist to Jacob's Island, the rookery in the marsh where its waters met the Thames

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2019-11-07

And lastly today, here is the FCBD story that started my style of Mouse Guard short folktales. Inspired by Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale & 's Tale of the Three Brothers here is The Wise Weaver: https://t.co/SmG2vUkPmz

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2019-05-05

When you've been binge watching anime and see nothing but over dramatic anime characters act out Chaucer's poems in English assignments 😬

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2017-10-29

My latest column for : Chaucer's vision of a post-truth world https://t.co/tdzFDMGgJT

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2017-02-09