A dozen years ago, Alf Seegert was into playing solo video games, and his wife-to-be was feeling left out. “Can’t we play something together?” she asked Mr. Seegert, who works today as an assistant ...

Researcher Peter Robinson led the team that developed the first app version of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Dave Stobbe / University of Saskatchewan The Canterbury Tales is a pillar of the ...

Remember struggling over “The Canterbury Tales” in high school? It was a labor of laughs borne only for the puerile joy of reading about farts and arse-kissing. And there was this weird recognition: ...

Geoffrey Chaucer's “Canterbury Tales” are part of the literary canon. Working through the collection of 14th-century stories, written in Middle English, is practically a rite of passage for anyone ...

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 ...

A five-part NPR series retraces the steps of Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales to explore Britain in the early 21st century. It offers a portrait of a changing nation some 600 years ...

New biography of UChicago professor and alumna shines light on her contributions to cryptography and medieval scholarship ...

A Kent tourist attraction has re-opened with new owners after closing during the Covid pandemic. The Canterbury Tales, based on the 13th Century stories of Geoffrey Chaucer, has been shut since April ...

Chaucer’s penitentiary story “The Parson’s Tale” can teach us how to find communal self-knowledge and true repentance. Caught between a tavern and a cathedral, between the slums and stews of Southwark ...

The Middle Ages, England. Stories of peasants, noblemen, clergy, and demons are interwoven with brief scenes from Chaucer's home life and experiences implied to be the basis for the Canterbury Tales.