Chaucer’s Books, a beloved institution for Santa Barbara readers for 50 years, is inviting the community to celebrate its golden anniversary with a series of festivities over the next several weeks.

The young Canterbury Tales author was paraded by his employer in scandalously tight outfits, says Oxford academic Marion Turner He may be revered as the father of English literature, but Geoffrey ...

With Robert Yeager, Terry Dolan, Alan Fletcher and Juliette Dor Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s, $29.95, 408 pages Terry Jones, known for his work as member of the comedy troupe “Monty Python’s Flying ...

WELLESLEY, MASS. — The lights dim, the music pumps -- a steady beat that can be felt in the bones -- and Baba Brinkman struts and bounces around the stage, belting out his rhymes about hard living, ...

For almost all his life, writing was not Geoffrey Chaucer’s day job. The 14th-century English poet, born a vintner’s son, began work young and changed jobs often. He was first a lackey, then the agent ...

INTO eight monographs, contained in three large and beautifully printed volumes, 1 Professor Lounsbury has gathered the fruits of his long devotion to Chaucer. The modest title, Studies, is no index ...

Clare Davidson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

"Now I beg all those that listen to this little treatise [Canterbury Tales], or read it, that if there be anything in it that pleases them, they thank our Lord Jesus Christ for it, from whom proceeds ...

The poet W.H. Auden said that to understand your own country, you ought to have lived in at least two others. As a historian, I've taken a different tack: to show readers what life was like for people ...

And the year that changed his course. Geoffrey Chaucer's life is unusually well-documented by mediaeval standards. More than 400 contemporary records of him survive, in which he appears not as a poet ...

The life of Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1340-1400), often labeled “the father of English poetry,” ought to be an open book: He is mentioned almost 500 times in contemporary records, far more than ...