Working from the Close Rolls, Patent Rolls and the Chaucer Society’s Life Records, Hulbert sets Geoffrey Chaucer beside the other esquires of the king’s household: how they were appointed and classified, what services they performed, from secret missions abroad to customs posts, and how they were rewarded, testing the idea that the poet owed his career to John of Gaunt.
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