Geoffrey Chaucer runs the gamut. There are many Chaucers: funny, gloomy, pious, political, gross. There is the learned Chaucer, the feminist Chaucer, the social Chaucer, the religious Chaucer, the ...

For a week of English poetry about the month of April, it’s impossible not to begin with “Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote”: When that April with his showers sweet. The poetic voice of ...

Chaucer himself was a translator, people forget, his most important work along those lines being “The Romance of the Rose” and Boethius’ “The Consolation of Philosophy.” Some of the tales that appear ...

Six centuries after immortalizing British medieval author Geoffrey Chaucer’s seminal work “The Canterbury Tales,” an anonymous scribe has been unveiled as the long-haired son of an English landowner.

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 ...

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Chaucer’s penitentiary story “The Parson’s Tale” can teach us how to find communal self-knowledge and true repentance. Caught between a tavern and a cathedral, between the slums and stews of Southwark ...

CANTERBURY, England | After nearly 1,000 years, murder in the cathedral is still luring visitors to Canterbury. It was in the Canterbury Cathedral in 1170 that Archbishop Thomas Becket was killed, ...

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A confirmed sadist could find many things to enjoy in the pages of The Canterbury Tales. As Chaucer’s pilgrims take turns telling stories to while away the hours on their long walk to the shrine of St ...