The Canterbury Tales
1390 · 528 pages
Chaucer's thirty pilgrims ride to Canterbury swapping stories, the knight a courtly romance and the miller a filthy joke, and he wrote them in English when serious poetry meant Latin or French.
★ 8.9
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Revelations of Divine Love
1395 · 288 pages
The earliest surviving English book by a woman came from an anchoress sealed into a cell beside a Norwich church. Julian saw all creation lying in her palm, small as a hazelnut.
★ 6.5
All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.
Revelatons of Divine Love · 1395