Category: Charmers and Chancers

Hawking Your Wares examines the realities of being an independent trader of goods or services, to the backdrop of, perhaps the most beloved of all Chaucer’s characters, Alison, the Good Wife of Bath; the first fully realised, multi-dimensional creation of a fictional…

Plague and Pestilence embarks on more of a whistlestop than a leisurely pilgrimage throughout the centuries, starting with I think, one of the most “well setup” of all Chaucer’s characters – The Doctor of Physick. Safe to say he had a finely…

  Laying Down the Law embarks on perhaps a quizzical look at our Serjeant at Law, who has risen to the heights of his profession, being, as there were in those days, only twenty of his rank, selected by special writ from…

Cloistered Warriors embarks on a religious journey throughout the centuries, starting with perhaps, one of the most irritating of all Chaucer’s characters, what with her life of luxury and entitlement, her childish acceptance of religious doctrine at its most basic level, and…

Who’s Medieval Army? embarks on a journey that examines aspects of women’s involvement in military activities in more recent centuries, mainly in both world wars and in Ireland between 1916 and 1923, while always remembering the backdrop of the almost exclusively male…