The medieval writer made puzzling references to a story called "The Song of Wade," which has been lost to history. Only a few ...

Two scholars have made new conclusions about a sermon from the late 12th century, which reframes some confusing references, ...

Two researchers are proposing a new reading of the Song of Wade, a once widely known epic from the 12th century, thanks to a ...

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 ...

Dreamed up by Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales more than 600 years ago, the Wife of Bath was known for her lusty appetites, gossipy asides and fondness for wine.

Chaucer’s genius in creating the Wife of Bath was to compose a character who not only subverted the stereotypes of medieval sexism, but who could — at least inwardly — speak back to male power.

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Flying Circus” Nov. 3-6 in Lakewood’s Senney Theater. (Photo Courtesy of the Beck Center for the Arts) Directed by Russel Stich, “The Canterbury Tales Or … ...

In a 1981 academic article, the late University of Kansas English professor Jack B. Oruch argued that Chaucer's 1375 poem “Parlement of Foules” was the first to record St. Valentine's Day as a ...

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 ...