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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Researcher Peter Robinson led the team that developed the first app version of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Dave Stobbe / University of Saskatchewan The Canterbury Tales is a pillar of the ...

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 ...

April 13, 2009 • This NPR series explores how British people live and what they believe through a walk in the footsteps of Geoffrey Chaucer from London to Canterbury. The journey provides an overview ...

Before "The Canterbury Tales," Geoffrey Chaucer was a teenage fashion plate, prisoner of war, a traveler. We dig into a new biography. On 4th July, 1378, a bead-maker, Simon Wylde de Estland, robbed a ...

One of the many reasons Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14th-century magnum opus The Canterbury Tales is considered a groundbreaking collection of stories is because he chose to write it not in a highbrow language ...

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