Mary Flannery - Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard

A Book with Legs

Smead Capital Management

Investing, Business, Management

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🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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In this episode, writer and medievalist Mary Flannery joins Cole Smead to discuss her book, “Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard.” Their discussion explores the life and work of English writer and poet Geoffrey Chaucer, a father figure in the English literary tradition, covering his most influential and controversial works, numerous titles and royal affiliations, impact on the modern English language, and more.

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0:00.0	You're listening to A Book with Legs, a podcast presented by Smead Capital Management.
0:08.0	At Smead Capital Management, we advise investors who fear stock market failure.
0:12.9	You can learn more at Smeadcap.com or by calling your financial advisor.
0:26.4	Welcome to a book with legs podcast. I'm Cole Smead, CEO and portfolio manager here at Smead Capital Management. At our firm, we are readers and we believe in the power of books to help
0:30.9	shaped informed investors. In this podcast, we speak to great authors about their writings.
0:35.5	The late great Charlie Munger prescribed using multiple mental models and analysis.
0:39.9	We analyze their work through the lens of business, markets, and people.
0:44.6	In this episode, we are going to talk about adapting literature for the world you were in.
0:49.0	The point may not be to change the world, but instead to make people laugh.
0:54.9	Mary Flannery is joining us to discuss her work, Jeffrey Chaucer, unveiling the Mary Bard.
1:00.3	To introduce our listeners to Mary, she is a writer and a medievalist who works on literature
1:05.5	and culture of late medieval England.
1:08.1	She currently holds a Swiss National Science Foundation Excellenza Professional
1:12.5	Fellowship at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Mary has helped post at the University of
1:17.3	Oxford, University of Lausanne, Queen Mary University of London, and the J. Paul Getty Museum
1:22.8	in Los Angeles. Mary, thanks for joining me today.
1:26.5	Thanks so much for having me, Cole. Great to be here.
1:29.2	Yeah, great to be here. And you're joining us from Switzerland, I assume? Yep. Right now, I am sitting
1:33.6	on the ground floor of an apartment in Geneva, not too far from the lake. Nice. Well, my ancestors
1:39.6	are from Lengenthal. Oh, really? You know, there in the Canton of Bern. So when I was reading your fellowship, I thought, oh, this is, this is fun.
1:47.7	Get to connect with my, my homeland from many generations ago.
1:51.5	Yeah, absolutely.
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