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How Chaucer reshaped English poetry

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What makes a novel of ideas?

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

The poet’s exasperation with his provincial upbringing

Armigers from the Tudor and Stuart era had their moment last month, with a seal ring linked to Royal Exchange founder Sir Thomas Gresham and a ruffler once owned by philanthropist Sir Edwin Rich causing a stir at auction