The Intellectual Devotional: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Roam Confidently with the Culture (The Intellectual Devotional Series)

by David S. Kidder

After the Black Death ravaged England in the late 1340s, Chaucer’s family inherited a fortune from relatives who died in the epidemic. This financial windfall enabled Chaucer to obtain an education rather than become a tradesman or merchant.