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Chaucer’s penitentiary story “The Parson’s Tale” can teach us how to find communal self-knowledge and true repentance. Caught between a tavern and a cathedral, between the slums and stews of Southwark ...

Six centuries after immortalizing British medieval author Geoffrey Chaucer’s seminal work “The Canterbury Tales,” an anonymous scribe has been unveiled as the long-haired son of an English landowner.

There’s old school hip-hop, and then there’s old, old, old, old school. In this case, don’t think the south Bronx, think Medieval England. With Baba Brinkman’s performance of the “Rap Canterbury Tales ...

Geoffrey Chaucer is known as the “father of English literature” for his medieval classic The Canterbury Tales, a work that encouraged writers of his time to write in Middle English rather than French.

CANTERBURY, England — After almost 1,000 years, murder in the cathedral is still luring visitors to Canterbury. At the Canterbury Cathedral in 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket was killed by four knights ...

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, ...

An English friend sent us this delicious piece of nonsense from Nottingham University, which recently decided to put a trigger warning on Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1387–1400) because—can ...