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 ...

Geoffrey Spirleng was a civic official in Norwich ... manuscripts as copy texts for his own book. An ABC is one of several short poems by Chaucer inspired by French courtly verse. It is a skilful ...

“The Canterbury Tales,” written by Geoffrey Chaucer, was the first book to be printed in English in England, said Andrew Julo, director and curator of the center. It is not an easy rea ...

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

Geoffrey began his career in the service of Lionel ... On the death of John's first wife Blanche Chaucer wrote his poem The Book of the Duchess. Gaunt's third wife Katherine was said to have been a ...

Geoffrey Chaucer is considered the father of English ... One of those poems is The Book of the Duchess, written after the Duchess of Lancaster’s death. The Italian period consisted in a greater ...

How does an Oxford academic follow up a prize-winning trade book, a newly researched biography of Geoffrey Chaucer? And, moreover, in lockdown, when archives and libraries are largely inaccessible?

Geoffrey Chaucer was born about 1343, the son of a rich wine merchant in London. Geoffrey followed (ha seguito) Edward III’s son to (il figlio di Edward III’s nella) war in France where he was ...