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I began my journey at the gates of the magnificent Canterbury Cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the destination of the pilgrims in Chaucer’s book. On a damp spring morning, I found myself ...

After decades of research and a bit of help from the late Terry Jones, a 600-year-old manuscript comes to life. Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led CNET's coverage of privacy and ...

Adaptations of Geoffrey Chaucer`s ”The Canterbury Tales”–and they have been legion–almost invariably disappoint. Such is the case in Trinity Square Ensemble`s current mounting of seven selections in a ...

In 1985, Mr. Kilinski, my senior-year high school English teacher, put Geoffrey Chaucer’s magnum opus “The Canterbury Tales” on the syllabus. The plot: A motley crew of people from different walks of ...

CANTERBURY, England – After nearly 1,000 years, murder in the cathedral is still luring visitors to Canterbury. It was in the Canterbury Cathedral in 1170 that Archbishop Thomas Becket was killed, ...

The well-worn pages inside the marbled cover of a first-edition “Canterbury Tales” book is carefully stored in a special slipcover at Saint Vincent College in Unity. The book is dated 1478. In the ...

Did Chaucer get it wrong or did we get it wrong? Chaucer’s seminal work The Canterbury Talesis a work of 24 tales from the pilgrims traveling to the shrine at Canterbury, together with a Prologue or ...

Chaucer himself was a translator, people forget, his most important work along those lines being “The Romance of the Rose” and Boethius’ “The Consolation of Philosophy.” Some of the tales that appear ...

Renatta Signorini Sunday, March 12, 2023 12:01 a.m. | Sunday, March 12, 2023 12:01 a.m. The well-worn pages inside the marbled cover of a first-edition “Canterbury Tales” book is carefully stored in a ...