The life of Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1340-1400), often labeled “the father of English poetry,” ought to be an open book: He is mentioned almost 500 times in contemporary records, far more than ...

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I began my journey at the gates of the magnificent Canterbury Cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the destination of the pilgrims in Chaucer’s book. On a damp spring morning, I found myself ...

Geoffrey Chaucer is considered one of the most formative writers in the English literary canon. His work—written at a time when English literature was beginning to take shape—spanned poetry and prose ...

In a Canadian high school years ago, I giggled through the Wife of Bath's shameless monologue: "For certeyn, olde dotard, by youre leve, ye shul have queynte right ynough at eve." Such provocative ...

Founded in 1966, The Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism publishes studies of the language, sources, historical and political contexts, social milieus, and aesthetics ...

"Now I beg all those that listen to this little treatise [Canterbury Tales], or read it, that if there be anything in it that pleases them, they thank our Lord Jesus Christ for it, from whom proceeds ...

A leading university has provoked fury for putting a 'ludicrous' trigger warning on Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales because they contain 'expressions of Christian faith'. Critics accused the ...

David Herd is a co-organiser of Refugees Tales. In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, his unfinished account of a 13th-century pilgrimage, the host, in his cheerful and accommodating manner, ...

Before "The Canterbury Tales," Geoffrey Chaucer was a teenage fashion plate, prisoner of war, a traveler. We dig into a new biography. This show originally aired on May 02, 2019. Before “The ...