I have just started reading “The Good Wife of Bath” by Karen Brooks. I am familiar with the Wife of Bath from my previous ...

The fact that Chaucer wrote in English (now referred to as Middle English), rather than French or Latin like many of his fellow writers, meant that ordinary folk could enjoy the Canterbury Tales ...

The pilgrims are a mixed bunch ... holy relics which more often than not turned out to be entirely fraudulent. Chaucer describes him as not behaving like a “geldyng or a mare” (a man or ...

the year that Chaucer died. It is considered an unfinished work. The tales are framed as a storytelling contest between pilgrims, who entertain themselves while travelling from London to the tomb ...