AGES ERA PERIOD
THE RENAISSANCE
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a poet
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a merchant
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a civil servant
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none of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -He maintained a career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier, diplomat, and member of parliament.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1385 Chaucer moved to Kent, which he represented as a Member of Parliament for three years. Although he fought as a soldier in France for Edward III and earned his living as a royal and civil servant, it is as a writer that Chaucer is known today.
Detailed explanation-3: -Chaucer was not a professional writer, but a courtier and civil servant who successfully served three kings in a long and varied career. Born in about 1342 into a middle-class merchant family, by the age of seventeen he was placed as a page in the household of Prince Lionel, one of the sons of Edward III.
Detailed explanation-4: -Chaucer had a career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier, diplomat, and member of parliament, as well as writing well-known works such as The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women, and Troilus and Criseyde.
Detailed explanation-5: -John Chaucer, his father, was an important London vintner and a deputy to the king’s butler; in 1338 he was a member of Edward III’s expedition to Antwerp, in Flanders, now part of Belgium, and he owned property in Ipswich, in the county of Suffolk, and in London.