A Freedom of Information request has exposed the University of Nottingham for issuing trigger warnings to students who have signed up to a module on medieval English literature.
Four authors apparently presented those of a delicate or sensitive disposition with particular threats that required forewarning: Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, John Gower, and Thomas Hoccleve. But what was it that was so dangerous about these poets that required a trigger warning? Two generalities and something very specific: violence, mental illness and, rather more chillingly, expressions of Christian faith.
