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The medieval hero known as Wade was thought to have encountered elves in his adventures. But they might have wolves instead.
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 ...
It is said that 100,000 pilgrims made their way to the Canterbury Cathedral in 1420. Today, Canterbury Cathedral draws one million visitors a year. Chaucer’s tales still lure visitors to ...
TOLD by all levels of society – from a chivalrous knight to a bawdy much-married widow – Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales provide a… ...
Chaucer’s Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury” by Paul Strohm (Viking Penguin Group, 283 pages, $28.95) Geoffrey Chaucer, who died obscurely in 1400, achieved, rather quickly, a ...
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 ...
A festive parade that takes crowds back to the Middle Ages is celebrating its 10th year. With historical links to the likes of Geoffrey Chaucer and Thomas Becket, Canterbury’s Medieval Pageant will ...
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.
The well-worn pages inside the marbled cover of a first-edition “Canterbury Tales” book is carefully stored in a special slipcover at Saint Vincent College in Unity. The book is dated 1478.