This semester is my first time teaching the Canterbury Tales to doctoral students. To rise to their level, I decided manuscripts would be a big part of…
She was so charitable and so pitous She wolde wepe, if that she saugh a mous Kaught in a trappe, if it were deed or…
In last night’s Chaucer class, while trying to illustrate a point about the Manciple’s Tale. I found myself in Cambridge, Trinity College R.3.3, a Canterbury Tales manuscript…
“and forth he gooth — no lenger wolde he lette — / unto the west gate of the toun, and fond / a dong carte,…
If you teach Chaucer, you’re likely more than familiar with this bit from the Nun’s Priest’s Tale: Wommennes conseils been ful ofte colde; Wommannes counseil…
PRIORESS’S TALE in 40 minutes: focusing on cursed folk of Herod “al new”: theme – youth, time, and repetition. — Karl Steel (@KarlSteel) April 20,…
Students — and probably not only students — often praise Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale for being “more realistic” than the “Knight’s Tale.” With its love of…
I’ve just commented, with some befuddlement, on two classes of short papers on the Prioress’s Tale. I had introduced the Tale with, yes, a Trigger…
Cross-posted to ITM. I’m in Iceland for the New Chaucer Society Conference. Today’s papers concluded with a whale watch, expressly framed by the excursion group as…
Remember the Middle Ages covers a LOT of ground. We’re talking about Europe, but not only Europe, from roughly the fall of the Roman Empire…
