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A window on Chaucer’s cramped, scary, smelly world
- gcb0 12y agohe probably stated writing as an excuse to hang in a cafe with his hipster laptop equivalent of the time just to not be in this apartment.
- pjc50 12y agoChaucer predates cafe culture. Chaucer predates coffee, at least the drinking of.
- VLM 12y agoCoffee and tea houses went big in the restoration era, so figure four hundred or so years too early. Now alcohol on the other hand, he could have drank his hipster PBR equivalent pretty easily.
- cafard 12y agoWasn't his salary as laureate paid in wine?
- davidw 12y agoI thought you were probably wrong, if one took into account the area coffee comes from, but it turns out that you're correct: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_coffee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_coffee That's surprising that it's so recent - even distilled alcohol is older than the historical record of coffee consumption.
- chiph 12y agoHe even predates widespread tea consumption in Britain (18th century).
- gcb0 12y agodid he also predate communal places such as eateries and libraries? or just you predate jokes?
- maaku 12y agos/coffee/mead/