Chaucer's Miller, from 'The Canterbury Tales,' whose story was dirty enough to be censored from high school English class in the '80s. A woodcut from Richard Pynson's 1492 edition. Hulton Archive ...

Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales has been hit with a trigger warning by a leading university over “expressions of Christian faith”, it has emerged. The University of Nottingham put ...

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.

That the author of “The Canterbury Tales” had been accused of rape was long a staple of Chaucer studies. But scholars now suggest it was based on a misreading of court papers from 1380.

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories written by poet and author Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century, framed as a storytelling contest among pilgrims journeying to the shrine of ...

Joan Acocella writes on Marion Turner’s “The Wife of Bath: A Biography,” which surveys the “Canterbury Tales” character’s literary influence and the lives of women in Chaucer’s time.

Composed between 1387 and 1400, “The Canterbury Tales” narrates the adventures of various characters on a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral from London, with tales featuring figures such as the Wife ...

There are 32 pilgrims who set out on the journey that frames Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,” with two more coming along later. Many of these are mere cyphers (like the five guildsmen, not ...

The author of “The Canterbury Tales” was a bureaucrat, businessman and emissary. He wove the colorful personalities he encountered into his work.

The well-worn pages inside the marbled cover of a first-edition “Canterbury Tales” book is carefully stored in a special slipcover at Saint Vincent College in Unity. The book is dated ...