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, the Wife of Bath was known for her lusty appetites, gossipy asides and fondness for wine.

A new book traces the “biography” of Geoffrey Chaucer’s most enduring character and her impact on the course of English literature.

Geoffrey Chaucer — the most famous of all “Middle English” writers and a staple of most English department curricula — had a French wife; read French, Latin, and Italian; and spent significant time ...

It can be found in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, across England’s towns and cities in the Middle Ages, and in medical treatises describing anatomy. “This was not an obscene word, it was just a ...

As a youth, Chaucer was captured and ransomed for £16—the modern equivalent of about £8000, or nearly $10,000.

So in his Prioresse’s Tale Geoffrey Chaucer ended his version of one of the best-known stories of the Middle Ages.