{"id":56195,"date":"2025-06-24T09:35:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T08:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=56195"},"modified":"2025-06-24T15:11:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T14:11:24","slug":"charmers-and-chancers-chaucers-cheerleaders-whos-medieval-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=56195","title":{"rendered":"Charmers and Chancers, Chaucer\u2019s Cheerleaders – Who’s Medieval Army"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Who\u2019s Medieval Army? <\/em><\/strong>embarks on a journey that examines aspects of women\u2019s 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 participation throughout the centuries.<\/p>\n

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Dr Jackie U\u00ed Chionna. Department of History, University of Galway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dr Jackie U\u00ed Chionna, who teaches History at University of Galway<\/span> and Haley Brabazon, who is in the final stages of writing up her PhD with the Department of History in Dublin City University, talk about their research and their work and surmise how things have changed since Chaucer\u2019s goodly, dull Knight returned from the Crusades, his sword guided by piety, no less.<\/p>\n

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Haley Brabazon. DCU Department of History<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Written and produced by Bernie Dwan. Recorded and mixed by Declan McGlade. The series is made with the support of Coimisi\u00fan Na Me\u00e1n\u2019s Sound and Vision scheme, with the Television License fee. Recorded in Near FM studios, Coolock.<\/p>\n

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Devised and produced by Berni Dwan, and funded by Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n, Charmers and Chancers: Chaucer\u2019s Cheerleaders, is a five-part series that attempts to link five key medieval professions \u2013 military, religious, legal, medical, trading – as depicted in Chaucer\u2019s Canterbury Tales, to women\u2019s working lives today, and examine women\u2019s participation in these professions down through the centuries. In the Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400, we meet thirty characters \u2013 only two of whom are women \u2013 The Prioress and the Wife of Bath – who agree to take part in a story-telling competition before setting off on pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett, that troublesome priest who was murdered there by King Henry IIs knights in 1170.<\/p>\n

In an innovative and entertaining way, the series will \u2013 \u00a0at a time when the gender pay gap is still a reality and childcare remains a challenge for many women who work outside the home – juxtapose aspects of these five occupational areas between late medieval and post-modern by engaging 21st<\/sup> century female practitioners in discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who\u2019s Medieval Army? embarks on a journey that examines aspects of women\u2019s 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 participation throughout the centuries. Dr Jackie U\u00ed Chionna, who teaches History at University […]<\/p>\n

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