[Phileosopher]

I love the OG callback.

Before I clicked the link, I was scared this was contextually something far scarier:

"After centuries of intellectual property legal disputes with the Catholic church and the Chaucer family estate, the British Library has finally been able to secure a win for public domain content freedom."

[OfSanguineFire]

England’s suppression of the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century was drastic. One could not expect any privileges of Rome from Chaucer’s era to have survived that period of English history.

In fact, reading the Canterbury Tales is a strange experience. On one hand, with perennially popular topics like bawdy humor and fart jokes, Chaucer’s era feels close to modern readers across the seven-century gap. On the other hand, he describes an England deeply imbued with Catholic clerical orders and worship, and that makes the setting alien indeed.

[jwestbury]

> with perennially popular topics like bawdy humor and fart jokes

The Miller's Tale is my go-to for both showing people the joy of medieval literature, but also as a counterpoint for people reminiscing about the "good old days" and concerned with how lewd modern society is. Well, the Miller's Tale and Pompeian graffiti.

But I love telling people about "kissing full sweetly" is.