Exclusive: Document was originally thought to be written by clerk on behalf of Canterbury Tales writer who worked as civil servant A 14th-century bureaucratic document requesting time off work for a ...

Spying is a risky profession. For the 14th-century English undercover agent-turned-poet Geoffrey Chaucer, the dangers – at least to his reputation – continue to surface centuries after his death. In ...

Centuries ago, Geoffrey Chaucer proposed that women desire a wise, brave, patient, and generous partner. His theory, found in ...

"Now I beg all those that listen to this little treatise [Canterbury Tales], or read it, that if there be anything in it that pleases them, they thank our Lord Jesus Christ for it, from whom proceeds ...

Say “Chaucer,” and most people think of the Canterbury Tales, or perhaps the 2001 jousting pastiche A Knight’s Tale. Featured Video But yesterday, on the 612th anniversary of the legendary English ...

The young Canterbury Tales author was paraded by his employer in scandalously tight outfits, says Oxford academic Marion Turner He may be revered as the father of English literature, but Geoffrey ...

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 ...

One of the many reasons Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14th-century magnum opus The Canterbury Tales is considered a groundbreaking collection of stories is because he chose to write it not in a highbrow language ...

Doubleday, $19.95, 208 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY MERLE RUBIN The pilgrims in Geoffrey Chaucer’s great work, “The Canterbury Tales,” set forth on their journey in April, that time of year when nature ...