Peter is joined by Isabel Davis to discuss marriage, sex and chastity in Chaucer, focusing on the Wife of Bath's speech.

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Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps". www.historyofphilosophy.net
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Folge vom 28.01.2018HoP 294 - Isabel Davis on Sexuality and Marriage in Chaucer
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Folge vom 14.01.2018HoP 293 - The Good Wife - Gender and Sexuality in the Middle AgesMedieval attitudes towards homosexuality, sex and chastity, and the status of women. Authors discussed include Aquinas, Catherine of Siena, and Chaucer.
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Folge vom 31.12.2017HoP 292 - Say it With Poetry - Chaucer and LanglandPhilosophical themes in Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” and “Troilus and Criseyde,” as well as Langland’s “Piers Plowman.”
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Folge vom 17.12.2017HoP 291 - Alle Maner of Thyng Shall be Welle - English MysticismJulian of Norwich’s Shewings and the Cloud of Unknowing lay out challenging paths to knowledge of, and union with, God.