Censorship and Intolerance in Medieval England
This dissertation proposes that the roots of formal print censorship in England are to be found in earlier forms of intolerance which sought to enforce conformity and that censorship is not distinct from intolerance, but rather is another form of intolerance.
Horror and Violence in The Canterbury Tales
A large amount of brutality, subjugation, and death can be be found within the most famous literary work of the Late Middle Ages, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.
The Cooks of the Canterbury Tales: The Backstage of Bourgeois Social Drama
This article aims at analysing Chaucer’s depiction of the cooks in the Canterbury Tales, and to discuss their function in contributing to the social changes as figures at the backstage of bourgeois social drama.
Chaucer’s Periodization
This lecture explores how Chaucer and his contemporaries saw their own place in time
Which Chaucer Character are You?
Are you one of the members of the Canterbury Tales, or perhaps the famous author himself? Answer these questions to find out!
Chaucer or Shakespeare?
18 quotes (modernised) – some of which are Geoffrey Chaucer’s and some of which are William Shakespeare’s. Which one was penned by which great writer?
Drinking Sorrow and Bathing in Bliss: Liquid Emotions in Chaucer
This paper explores the different uses of liquidity to represent emotions in Chaucer’s writing, and especially in Troilus and Criseyde
The Female Audience of the Manuscripts of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
This thesis finds evidence that women used the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales in an informal way, and the books were potentially kept in close proximity at home.
Six Degrees of Chaucer: How Southwark Shaped The Canterbury Tales
Sebastian Sobecki has found a network of intriguing connections between Geoffrey Chaucer and some of the biggest influencers of the day, including John Gower, and Bishop William of Wykeham, chancellor of England.
Ampullae and Badges: Pilgrim Paraphernalia in Late Medieval England
Late medieval persons who adorned their hats and cloaks with the traces of their pilgrimage visits grappled with many conflicting perspectives.
Chaucer’s Decameron and the Wife of Bath’s Tale: Why Do Literary History?
A possible direct link between the two greatest literary collections of the fourteenth century, Boccaccio’s Decameron and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, has long tantalized readers because these works share many stories, which are, moreover, placed in similar frames.
Undergraduate research project finds connection between Chaucer and medieval astronomers
Senior English Literature major, Michael Walecke, is mapping collocations of one of Chaucer’s only prose works.
Why We Can’t Stop Fighting about Chaucer’s Man of Law
Why We Can’t Stop Fighting about Chaucer’s Man of Law By Bonnie J. Erwin Enarratio: Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest, Volume…
Verba vana: empty words in Ricardian London
Verba vana: empty words in Ricardian London By Robert Ellis PhD Dissertation, Queen Mary, University of London, 2012 Abstract: Verba Vana, or ‘empty…
Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales in Middle English
Watch and listen to parts of The Canterbury Tales read in Middle English
REVIEW: The Ballad of Robin Hood
Over the holiday season, Southwark Playhouse is presenting their reinterpretation of The Ballad of Robin Hood.
Animated Epics: The Canterbury Tales
A 1998 animated version of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Shrews, Rats, and a Polecat in the ‘Pardoner’s Tale’
The animals of particular interest to us are creatures that function in two distinct ways: as familiar dead metaphors and as familiar live animals.
Dreams and lovers: the sympathetic guide frame in Middle English courtly love poems
When is a dream not a dream? The Middle English convention of the ‘dream vision’ has been read by modern scholars as a genre that primarily reveals the medieval understanding of dreaming and dream theory, so that events and stories presented within a dream frame are necessarily read through that specific hermeneutic.
Book Burning in Chaucer and Austen
Chaucer has also composed a scene in which he, a maker of books, makes a character who destroys books, combining both making and unmaking in the work of creation.
The Priest and the Fox: Tricksters in Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale
Although the figure of Reynard is prevalent in trickster lore, the primary trickster at play in the Nun’s Priest’s Tale may be not the fox but the teller of the tale, the Nun’s Priest himself who travels the road to Canterbury.
Fourteenth-Century Weaponry, Armour and Warfare in Chaucer and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
This essay attempts to re-appraise selected passages of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from a wider military historical and archaeological perspective.
Be A Part of Chaucer’s Tale
For many people, The Canterbury Tales is not only Geoffrey Chaucer’s great masterwork, but one of the cornerstones of English literature.
Chaucer the Love Poet: A Study in Historical Criticism
This thesis is an historically based inquiry into the aesthetic function and moral significance of the themes of marriage, fornication, and adultery in Chaucer’s poetry about sexual love
