But for Chaucer, Langland and their contemporaries, it was the modern future that represented a catastrophe.
While records concerning the lives of his contemporary friends, William Langland and the Pearl Poet,
are non-existent, since Chaucer was a public servant, his official life is well documented, with nearly five hundred written items testifying to his career.
While records concerning the lives of his contemporary friends, William Langland and the Pearl Poet,
are practically non-existent, since Chaucer was a public servant, his official life is very well documented, with nearly five hundred written items testifying to his career.