A medieval sermon packed with 'memes' and simple spelling mistakes could explain a baffling line in 'The Canterbury Tales.' ...

A mystery surrounding a lost poem or story referenced by Geoffrey Chaucer may have been solved after scientists corrected a ...

The Tale of Wade, referred to in Chaucer’s poems, survives only in a tiny fragment. Two academics argue a scribe’s error ...

Falk and Wade have also translated nikeres as “sea-snakes” instead of “sprites.” In Old and Middle English, the term was used ...

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 ...

Scholars have decoded a medieval manuscript linked to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, solving a 130-year-old literary mystery.

Scholars say handwriting errors in a 900-year-old document changes the understanding of "The Song of Wade", a lost English poem.

Reminiscent of love and with an unmistakable odour of death, the little stinkers of the natural world might incite repulsion, ...

The Song of Wade was hugely popular throughout the Middle Ages. For several centuries, its central character remained a major ...

To have such a Mass celebrated in the mother church of England was ‘very impressive, very moving. We must pray a lot for the ...

Scholars have been left puzzled for 130 years by a medieval literary mystery - but now, two experts believe they have finally solved it. In the Middle Ages, the Song of Wade was a widely-known folk ...

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