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...Gutenberg Bible of 1455 and Shakespeare’s First Folio (1623); then continuing on to Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encylopédie (1751-66) before arriving at William Morris’s Kelmscott Press Works of Geoffrey Chaucer...
...Chaucer describes how birds tweet on Valentine’s Day and choose their mates. I am a Robin, last Wednesday was Valentine’s Day, but I am not a bird. I was in my garden, pondering, not tweeting....
...Turner’s own Chaucer: A European Life charted a different course, taking its cue from the frequently sympathetic portraits of women produced by Chaucer himself....
...Lloyd’s insurers Tokio Marine Kiln, Chaucer and Liberty Specialty Markets are among those that have pledged to hold the risk for a total of £500mn of insurance coverage written in partnership with these...
...The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner (Princeton University Press) Turner — the acclaimed biographer of Chaucer — shifts her gaze to one of the writer’s greatest characters: Alison of Bath....
...There is much in Cursed Bread about what Chaucer’s Wife of Bath called “the woe that is in marriage”....
...It even merits a mention in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, when the Knight recalls fighting there....
...Such are the constraints of staging a fashion show outside a library that holds a 15th-century Chaucer manuscript....
...Towards Brixton there’s “Poet’s Corner” — Milton, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Spenser Roads....
...Chaucer, the English medieval poet, referred to a land called Turkye in his poem “The Book of the Duchess”, composed some time around 1370....
...The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner (Princeton) Turner lifts the lid on Chaucer’s most famous character, the first ordinary woman in English literature, who is explored against the reality of...
...Zadie Smith’s blistering debut play remoulds Chaucer’s lusty character, lifting her from the pages of The Canterbury Tales and setting her down in a London pub (lovingly created in Robert Jones’s detailed...
...There were four racetracks near campus, and a final exam on Chaucer conflicted with the Belmont Stakes....
...Which of Chaucer’s pilgrims is the son of the Knight? Which international fashion company has its headquarters in Metzingen, Germany? Click here for the answers...
...This, according to Chaucer, is the traditional time of year for pilgrimage. In 1921, Walsingham got a new Anglican vicar: Alfred Hope Patten....
...Within an instant, we are at the wall the Romans built to protect Londinium where Chaucer leased the gatehouse at Aldgate (“old gate”)....
...The bird, the herald of spring in folklore, has cultural resonance for Britain appearing in numerous Shakespeare’s plays, Chaucer’s Parlement of Foules and perhaps most notably as the penultimate item gifted...
...The poets Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton and John Keats were all born there. But its focus long ago switched to business....
...dark animal fables of the ancient Panchatantra, tales of cunning jackals and trusting elephants, travelled 1,500 years ago from Iran and on to Europe, where they inspired fabulists and writers such as Chaucer...
...Westminster Abbey, London The site of coronations and royal weddings, the storied abbey has set up a vaccination hub in its Poets’ Corner where literary luminaries such as Charles Dickens, Geoffrey Chaucer...
...Praised by Dante and Chaucer and best preserved in a Hebrew translation, ibn Rushd hugely influenced Christianity and Judaism too....
...Mercifully, aware that “people can flee when you mention Chaucer”, Kneale has spared us the medieval vernacular....
...that originally appeared in The Phoenix, and each section takes the form of a graveyard interview with the exhumed and reanimated body of a renowned literary figure, from Homer to Beatrix Potter by way of Chaucer...
...As what is Harry Bailly better known in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales? Click here for the answers...
...Martyn Percy, dean of the Oxford college of Christ Church, would do well to read Chaucer’s Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and take note of the examples of the Clerk of Oxenford and the poor Parson of a...
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