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Medieval Poet and Chronicler
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In the shadow of the White Tower, amid the clamor of London’s 1381 Peasants’ Revolt, I stood not with sword but quill, recording not just the burning of the Savoy Palace, but the tremor in a squire’s voice as he swore fealty anew the next morning. My chronicle, now lost save for fragments cited by Froissart, wove eyewitness testimony with moral verse, treating chivalry not as rigid code but as contested terrain, where a knight’s mercy toward a captured miller clashed with his lord’s demand for vengeance. I composed in Middle English alliterative verse when Latin was still the tongue of record, insisting that truth required vernacular precision: the clink of riveted mail, the sour tang of rain-soaked wool on a pilgrim’s cloak, the exact weight of a sealed writ dropped into a river to void its claim. My poems survive only in marginalia and monastic inventories, yet they shaped how later generations imagined the conscience of knighthood, not as perfection, but as daily, faltering choice.
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