Why do we celebrate Valentine's Day? Here's a quick Valentine's Day history, from possible pagan origins to Catholic saints ...

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Christopher Cannon makes Chaucer's complete works available in a new ...

Folger Consort, the award-winning early music ensemble-in-residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library, invites audiences to ...

Ours is the faith of risqué mystery plays, polyphonic music so intricate it provoked theological scandal and sumptuous ...

One of the most common explanations is that Valentine's Day has its origins in the ancient Roman fertility festival of ...

St. Paul’s Artist Series Concerts presents the men’s vocal ensemble Chanticleer performing their program “Without a Song,” exploring music’s power through the ages. The concert takes place on Tuesday ...

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 ...

The medieval historian and former justice of the Supreme Court chooses his favourite books. The fifth and final volume of his history of the Hundred Years War, "Triumph and Illusion", is out in ...

This is the final resting place of famed authors Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling, among others. If you're fascinated by all the intrigue surrounding the British royalty ...