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 ...

A Kent tourist attraction has re-opened with new owners after closing during the Covid pandemic. The Canterbury Tales, based ...

Greg Jenner is joined in medieval England by Professor Marion Turner and comedian Mike Wozniak to learn all about Geoffrey Chaucer, author of the Canterbury Tales. Since the fifteenth century, Chaucer ...

Spying is a risky profession. For the 14th-century English undercover agent-turned-poet Geoffrey Chaucer, the dangers – at least to his reputation – continue to surface centuries after his death. In ...

Exclusive: Document was originally thought to be written by clerk on behalf of Canterbury Tales writer who worked as civil servant A 14th-century bureaucratic document requesting time off work for a ...

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 ...

NOTE FOR LISTENERS: Due to issues with our phone lines, we’re using a different number for today’s broadcast. Please call in at 1-888-899-9287, toll free. With Meghna Chakrabarti Before “The ...

Say “Chaucer,” and most people think of the Canterbury Tales, or perhaps the 2001 jousting pastiche A Knight’s Tale. Featured Video But yesterday, on the 612th anniversary of the legendary English ...

Doubleday, $19.95, 208 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY MERLE RUBIN The pilgrims in Geoffrey Chaucer’s great work, “The Canterbury Tales,” set forth on their journey in April, that time of year when nature ...