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 ...

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.

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

Both “Multicultural Middle Ages” and “Medieval World Literature, ... explains Butterfield. Children were not taught to read and write English, only Latin. Geoffrey Chaucer — the most famous of all ...