[HN Gopher] Chaucer on Trial
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       Chaucer on Trial
        
       Author : pepys
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2022-11-23 22:45 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | googlryas wrote:
       | How much was 10PS back then? And what would a baker's daughter do
       | with it if she was given a lump sum?
        
         | ben_w wrote:
         | A lot, though given how different _everything_ was priced, I'm
         | not sure it would translate into a _single_ number in the
         | modern economy -- today, 5 years of an unskilled labourers'
         | wages isn't a year at Oxford university plus two draught
         | horses: https://thehistoryofengland.co.uk/resource/medieval-
         | prices-a...
        
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