On a damp spring morning, I found myself walking through the cobbled streets of Canterbury, the ancient cathedral’s spires peeking out from behind half-timbered houses. Nestled in southeastern England ...

Chaucer’s penitentiary story “The Parson’s Tale” can teach us how to find communal self-knowledge and true repentance. Caught between a tavern and a cathedral, between the slums and stews of Southwark ...

A confirmed sadist could find many things to enjoy in the pages of The Canterbury Tales. As Chaucer’s pilgrims take turns telling stories to while away the hours on their long walk to the shrine of St ...

Few figures in our culture are regarded with as much reverence as Geoffrey Chaucer, said Francesca Peacock in The Daily Telegraph. The author of "The Canterbury Tales" is remembered "as 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 killed, ...

Six centuries after immortalizing British medieval author Geoffrey Chaucer’s seminal work “The Canterbury Tales,” an anonymous scribe has been unveiled as the long-haired son of an English landowner.

Geoffrey Chaucer was born in the Middle Ages between 1340 and 1345, probably in London, although the precise date and location remain unknown. His father and grandfather were prosperous wine merchants ...

Chaucer himself was a translator, people forget, his most important work along those lines being “The Romance of the Rose” and Boethius’ “The Consolation of Philosophy.” Some of the tales that appear ...