A festive parade that takes crowds back to the Middle Ages is celebrating its 10th year. With historical links to the likes ...

Dreamed up by Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales more than 600 years ago, ... A Wife of Bath 'biography' brings a modern woman out of the Middle Ages. February 4, 2023 7:59 AM ET.

Of all the tales Chaucer’s pilgrims tell around the table at the Tabard Inn, it is the Wife of Bath’s that has most riotously escaped the Middle Ages: inspiring Shakespeare, James Joyce, Zadie ...

1. Geoffrey Chaucer was captured and ransomed for £16 before the age of 20. In 1359, Chaucer participated in the Reims campaign, a military effort by King Edward III of England to annex parts of ...

0 yonge Hugh of Lincoln, slayn also With cursed Jewes, as it is notable For it nis but a lit el whyle ago. So in his Prioresse’s Tale Geoffrey Chaucer ended his version of one of the best-known ...

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.

Many of these money-spending traditions can be traced back to the Middle Ages. You may have read Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" in a high school English literature class, but the poet is ...