Chaucer’s Books, a Santa Barbara book lover’s haven for the past half-century, will begin its next chapter under new ownership after its original owner, Mahri Kerley — who opened the shop in 1974 and ...
Chaucer and Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK) have taken over as co-leaders of Atrium’s marine and energy XoL treaty in replacement of ...
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 ...
King Arthur, Sir Gawain, and plenty of other chivalric characters are still well known in today’s culture. But one hero is a huge mystery: Wade. A new translation of an old manuscript reconsiders the ...
The Western canon dodged a bullet last week when Geoffrey Chaucer (1342–1400), author of The Canterbury Tales, was cleared of raping a woman named Cecily Chaumpaigne. Suspicion had been cast by a 1380 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
That the author of “The Canterbury Tales” had been accused of rape was long a staple of Chaucer studies. But scholars now suggest it was based on a misreading of court papers from 1380. By Jennifer ...
The poet W.H. Auden said that to understand your own country, you ought to have lived in at least two others. As a historian, I've taken a different tack: to show readers what life was like for people ...
The young Canterbury Tales author was paraded by his employer in scandalously tight outfits, says Oxford academic Marion Turner He may be revered as the father of English literature, but Geoffrey ...
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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