11.04.08
Order
Someone asked for more info on what I meant by “order” in the take home.
Specifically I mean social order. The middle ages recognized hierarchical order from god to angels, man, animals, plants, rocks, etc. In the “order” of things men were above women in social order; upper class above middle class. etc.
More generally I’m thinking about how Chaucer orders things — genders, classes, ideas. At times he seems to “think against” the commonly accepted social order. That is interesting.