In the joyous spirit of Chaucer’s clerk in The Canterbury Tales, the program provides opportunities for innovative collaboration in teaching and learning, enabling our students to explore the creative ...

Terry Jones (of Monty Python) gives a narrative of the life of and society around Geoffrey Chaucer. Geoffrey Chaucer's life to middle age, He survived the Black Death as a child, and become ...

The fact that Chaucer wrote in English (now referred to as Middle English), rather than French or Latin like many of his fellow writers, meant that ordinary folk could enjoy the Canterbury Tales ...

British biographers have tended to play up Chaucer’s noble connections—and he was very well-connected—while Americans like to see the author of “The Canterbury Tales” as a commoner held ...

Chaucer held the post of Clerk of the King's Works at the Palace of Westminster for a short time. He was a writer on astronomy, and made reference to the science and medicine of the day in his Tales.

Students studying a module on Geoffrey Chaucer at the University of Nottingham have been issued a trigger warning for ‘expressions of Christian faith’ in his famous Canterbury Tales.

Listen to Ambridge's The Canterbury Tales specials, part 1 and 2, on Saturday 29 December and Saturday 5 January. Writer Nick Warburton explains why The Archers is the perfect setting for Chaucer ...

“And whoever finds himself out of such blame / They will come up and offer in God’s name” (Chaucer in “The Canterbury Tales”). To many English speakers, it has long felt quite natura ...

Given the ancient origins of the carol, it’s not surprising that the phrase “merry organ” from the song’s refrain is found in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, which may be the original source ...