The enemies of Tony Blair (and everyone else)

Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) was arguably the first satirist of note in the English language; his „Canterbury Tales“, the plots of which are often taken from European sources (notably Boccaccio), present a variety of human types – selfish, greedy, libidinous, arrogant, vulgar, absurd – which Chaucer’s readership (exclusively aristocratie or clerical; no-one eise could read) would […]