{"id":443,"date":"2016-04-04T12:49:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T12:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/?p=443"},"modified":"2016-04-04T12:49:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T12:49:03","slug":"the-2016-chaucer-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2016\/04\/04\/the-2016-chaucer-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2016 Chaucer Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entitled, <em>Chaucer&#8217;s London Reading Circles<\/em>, this year&#8217;s Chaucer Lecture takes place on <strong>Thursday 7th April<\/strong> at <strong>6pm<\/strong> in <strong>Grimond Lecture Theatre 1<\/strong> and will be given by <strong>Professor Caroline Barron<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In the lecture, Professor Barron will\u00a0explore the London milieu in which Chaucer\u2019s works circulated in the generation after his death. It has been assumed that those who read (or heard) Chaucer\u2019s works were members of the Court and educated civil servants. This may well have been the case during his own\u00a0 life time, but a close look at various records surviving from the City of London in the early fifteenth century has suggested that his readers moved down the social scale and that Chaucer\u2019s works were circulating, not only among merchants, but also among artisans and those who might be termed the\u2019 urban middle classes\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalholloway.ac.uk\/history\/staffdirectory\/personalhomepages\/carolinebarron.aspx\"><strong>Caroline Barron<\/strong> <\/a>is Professor Emerita in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>All are welcome to the lecture and to the wine reception which follows.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entitled, Chaucer&#8217;s London Reading Circles, this year&#8217;s Chaucer Lecture takes place on Thursday 7th April at 6pm in Grimond Lecture Theatre 1 and will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2016\/04\/04\/the-2016-chaucer-lecture\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34306,"featured_media":444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}