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Chaucer courses to be replaced by modules on race and sexuality under University of Leicester plans
Beowulf and The Canterbury tales could be sidelined under plans for the English department
Geoffrey Chaucer s works will no longer be taught under new proposals
The University of Leicester will stop teaching Geoffrey Chaucer s work and other medieval literature in favour of modules on race and sexuality, according to new proposals.
Management told the English department that courses on canonical works will be dropped for modules “students expect” as part of plans now under consultation.
Foundational texts like The Canterbury Tales and Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf would no longer be taught under proposals to scrap medieval literature.
DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195396584-0284
The English chronicler John Hardyng (b. 1378–d.
c. 1465) had a colorful career before settling down to write his two versions of British history in the 1450s and 1460s. Born in Northumberland, he served in the household of Sir Henry Percy (b. 1364–d. 1403) from the age of twelve, where he learnt the art of warfare and fought in numerous battles, including the Battle of Shrewsbury (1403). Later, he served Sir Robert Umfraville, fighting alongside him in Scotland and in the first years of Henry V’s French campaign (1415–1416). In 1418 Henry V sent Hardyng to Scotland to survey the topography of the realm and seek out evidence of English overlordship. Promised a substantial gift for his espionage, Hardyng returned after three and a half years, but Henry V’s untimely death deprived him of his prize. He remained unrewarded until the 1440s, when Henry VI honored the late king’s promise and granted Hardyng an annuity. By this time Hard