Chaucer’s career as a secret agent helped him assume different disguises in his writing. Some scholars interpret this role-playing as Chaucer being sexist and anti-Semitic.
The chivalrous peasant teenager Joan of Arc is a hero of French independence.
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We’re supposed to suppress feelings of envy. But what if the kind spurred by school shutdowns, frontline work and cramped apartments are worth exploring – and acting upon?
Comedian, writer, historian: Terry Jones was a man of many parts and well loved in all his fields.
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