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History: 1343AD – 1400AD, a civil
servant and courtier to Edward III and Richard II, he is revered as one of the
first great figures of English literature, most often as the author of the
Canterbury Tales, and Troilus and Criseyde. His many works established English as
a language of literature, being the first English poet to use heroic couplets
and iambic pentameter, and influencing those who followed, such as Shakespeare,
Dryden and Spencer. His humor and depiction of the common man have endeared him
to generations since his burial in Westminster Abbey 1400AD. In reaction to the
mass production of the Industrial Age, the 19th Century Arts and Crafts movement
sought to revive medieval traditions of design. The natural forms of the
medieval art were synthesized into a new style which anticipated the art
nouveau. Its founder and principle force was William Morris amongst whose many
endeavors, was the founding of the Kelmscott press in collaboration with Edward
Byrne-Jones. This bangle has been adapted from the typeface and border patterns
of Morris’s edition of Chaucer’s works, now known as the Kelmscott Chaucer. The
quotation, “He is noble that does noble deeds” decorates the outside of the
bangle. Our modern word gentle deriving from genteel upbringing or noble birth
rather than its more narrow modern meaning of mere patience or kindliness.
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