> Chaucer's wife was not John of Gaunt's daughter, David, but his eventual
> sister-in-law.
I think you're right, Joanna, tired somewhat after a long hard busy day
here. To be really correct one should say it is +believed+ (and usually
accepted) that Chaucer married in St Mary de Castro.
As for Chaucer being in Leicester: more probably to do with Leicester being
important in Gaunt's power network (there's a little, VERY little Leics
village called simply 'John o'Gaunt'). Leicester, like Norwich, was a much
more important town in the mediaeval economy than in the present day.
Best
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joanna Boulter" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: A Berkeley Reading - Geraldine Monk & A Halsey
> Chaucer's wife was not John of Gaunt's daughter, David, but his eventual
> sister-in-law.
>
> What on earth was he doing in Leicester, apart from getting married?
>
> best joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 8:48 PM
> Subject: Re: A Berkeley Reading - Geraldine Monk & A Halsey
>
>
> > Stephen
> >
> >> This transparency and dialog between past and present I find quite
rich -
> >> perhaps influenced but different than the Olson take.
> >
> > I doubt if Olson is a particular influence. It's hard not to notice the
> > past
> > here: from where I sit now, in a not especially historical provincial
> > English city, Richard tthe IIIrd's bones lie buried unmarked within a
> > quarter-mile's walk, while Chaucer was married to a daughter of John of
> > Gaunt in the local church. And the forbiding faced social housing tower
> > block I live is named after a mediaeval baron.
> >
> >>Maybe because English
> >> history is so much longer and with more depth than chez here - these
> >> folks
> >> (tho their English neighbors might ignore their works) are genuinely
> > infused
> >
> > I'm lost among the pronouns here.
> >
> > Yes, btw, Geraldine +does+ read exceedingly well.
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:53 PM
> > Subject: A Berkeley Reading - Geraldine Monk & A Halsey
> >
> >
> >> Geraldine Halsey and Alan Halsey's reading last at Moe's Bookstore in
> >> Berkeley (CA) did not disappoint. Geraldine has a great
> >> reading voice - particularly in reviving the body & voice behind the
> >> Ghost
> >> of Mary Queen of Scots (imprisoned in Escafeld/Sheffield for 14 years -
a
> >> fact apparently ignored these days by the locals). Geraldine really
> > 'rolls'
> >> with it with lots of curious, inflected surprises along the way.
> >> Alan is equally, but different, in his historical 'made present
> >> 'investigations, including a rather wonderful account of Guttenberg's
> > ghost,
> >> the printed book confronting the digital virtal mode - using Google to
> >> search, and an automatic translation device to get at G's history,
mostly
> > in
> >> German. Guttenberg's original name apparently translates into English
as
> >> "Goose Flesh", and Guttenberg translates into "Good Mountain." Alan
> > combines
> >> a wonderful sense of serious, research, intellection and imaginative
> > passion
> >> to make the work quite present, compelling.
> >> This transparency and dialog between past and present I find quite
rich -
> >> perhaps influenced but different than the Olson take. Maybe because
> > English
> >> history is so much longer and with more depth than chez here - these
> >> folks
> >> (tho their English neighbors might ignore their works) are genuinely
> > infused
> >> - tho not at all oblivious to contemporary ironies, borderline flarfy
> >> (Blair, Google et al).
> >>
> >> - SPD carries their West House Books imprint - quite beautifully
> > produced.
> >>
> >> They will be coming to NY/St. Marks sometime soon
> >>
> >> Stephen Vincent
> >> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> >
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