British biographers have tended to play up Chaucer’s noble connections—and he was very well-connected—while Americans like to see the author of “The Canterbury Tales” as a commoner held ...

According to one legend, Pope Gelasius wanted to put an end to the debauchery in the late fifth century. He declared Feb. 14 as the feast day of a St. Valentine, who had been martyred about 200 years ...

Chaucer’s Books Presents – The New Negro Now: New Perspectives on the Black Renaissance in 2024. Pulitzer Prize (biography) and National Book Award (non-fiction) winning author and UCSB professor ...

Gaunt's third wife Katherine was said to have been a sister of the poet's wife. Chaucer held the post of Clerk of the King's Works at the Palace of Westminster for a short time. He was a writer on ...

Chaucer's recollection of these fabliaux may have influenced the postures of Alisoun and Nicholas in the Miller's Tale's window scenes, scenes that ultimately result in a loss of status, certainty, ...

Another author on the reading list ... will find aspects of the late-medieval worldview they will encounter in Chaucer and others alienating and strange. "All students may appreciate knowing ...

According to Kelly, author of “Chaucer and the Cult of Saint Valentine,” the English writer was the first to make the connection to love — but he was talking about another St. Valentine ...

Darrell M. McNeill Chaucer's Books will host local author Darrell M. McNeill for a book talk and signing of “The Isley Brothers: 3+3,” 3 p.m. Sunday, ...

In 1395, English author and poet, Geoffrey Chaucer, known for writing The Canterbury Tales, The Knight’s Tale, and many other books and poems, and was dubbed by some, The Father of English Literature, ...