A New App Guides Readers Through Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’ The tool includes a 45-minute audio performance of the work’s General Prologue in Middle English Brigit Katz - Correspondent ...

Since Chaucer left The Canterbury Tales unfinished at his death, no single text of the Tales exists. Scholars have to reconstruct the text from over 80 distinct manuscripts, mostly written by hand ...

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, … ...

The homicide was the subject of Murder in the Cathedral, a verse drama by T.S. Eliot, and was more famously immortalized in Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14th-century work The Canterbury Tales, which was ...

Adam Pinkhurst -- whose name was found by a U.S. handwriting expert -- wrote the 14th century manuscripts of Chaucer’s pilgrims’ stories, the most celebrated work of medieval English literature.

Now here comes Peter Ackroyd, novelist, biographer and historian, with “The Canterbury Tales” for a new generation — it’s Chaucer in vivid, expressive English exactly as you speak it.

Chaucer's Miller, from 'The Canterbury Tales,' whose story was dirty enough to be censored from high school English class in the '80s. A woodcut from Richard Pynson's 1492 edition.

Alcuin Blamires, Chaucer the Reactionary: Ideology and the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 51, No. 204 (Nov., 2000), pp. 523-539 ...

A Tiny Typo May Explain a Centuries-Old Mystery About Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’ and ‘Troilus and Criseyde’ The medieval writer made puzzling references to a story called “The Song ...

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 ...