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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer twice made references to an early work featuring a Germanic mythological character named Wade. Only three lines survive, discovered buried in a sermon by a late 19th ...

Reminiscent of love and with an unmistakable odour of death, the little stinkers of the natural world might incite repulsion, but they are only doing their job, pleads Ian Morton ...

Authenticity is the enemy of art – and yet our hunger for it has been allowed to cloud almost every corner of creativity. You ...

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