THE AIM OF THIS ARTICLE is to explore some of the biographical, material and ideological intersections between two of the most important cultural productions of late 14th-century England. The first is a monument in its landscape, the castle of Bodiam in East Sussex, and the second is a text, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. My analysis will begin with traditional biography: the historical exploration of links and intersections between the lives and experiences of the ‘builder’ and owner of Bodiam, Sir Edward Dallingridge, and those of Geoffrey Chaucer. It will move on to a more theoretically informed engagement with the meanings and values that lie, I argue, behind both text and monument — the way they converge as ideological constructions. I excavate the anxieties, tensions, gaps, silences and contradictions that lie below the surface of the formal, normative values they apparently proclaim so stridently. Ultimately, I argue that both text and monument are deeply implicated in different registers, levels and scales of violence.

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博迪亚姆城堡和坎特伯雷故事：一些交集

本文的目的是探索 14 世纪晚期英格兰两种最重要的文化作品之间的一些传记、物质和意识形态交叉点。第一个是景观中的纪念碑，东萨塞克斯郡的博迪亚姆城堡，第二个是文本，乔叟的坎特伯雷故事集。我的分析将从传统传记开始：对 Bodiam 的“建造者”和所有者、爱德华·达林里奇爵士和杰弗里·乔叟的生活和经历之间的联系和交集的历史探索。我认为，它将转向从理论上更明智地参与文本和纪念碑背后的意义和价值——它们融合为意识形态结构的方式。我挖掘焦虑、紧张、差距，沉默和矛盾隐藏在他们显然如此刺耳地宣扬的正式规范价值的表面之下。最后，我认为文本和纪念碑都深深地牵涉到不同的暴力范围、级别和规模。