Throughout history, connecting with younger generations has always been a challenging pursuit. But in the 12th century, one brave preacher gave it his best shot, delivering a sermon in Latin that ...

In the end, the key to answering a 130-year-old literary mystery was bad handwriting. Back in the 1890s, MR James, a University of Cambridge medievalist best known for penning ghost stories, made a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After decades of research and a bit of help from the late Terry Jones, a 600-year-old manuscript comes to life. Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led CNET's coverage of privacy and ...

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 ...

“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 ...

INTO eight monographs, contained in three large and beautifully printed volumes, 1 Professor Lounsbury has gathered the fruits of his long devotion to Chaucer. The modest title, Studies, is no index ...

While the proposed revisions of the English curriculum in secondary schools have unnerved and offended some, there is perhaps one silver lining. In a system seemingly intent on pushing students ...