'Chaucerian Parrhesia' by Paul Megna - a podcast by The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800)

Paul Megna is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, based at The University of Western Australia. On 7 June 2016, he delivered this paper at a workshop titled 'Chaucer as Translator/Translating Chaucer'. In the paper, he argues that Chaucer was acutely interested in exploring how fantasies of parrhesia, or frank speech, shaped subjectivity.

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