The Canterbury Tales, frame story by Geoffrey Chaucer, written in Middle English in 1387–1400. The framing device for the collection of stories is a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury, Kent. Learn more about The Canterbury Tales in
The Reeve’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The tale is one of the first English works to use dialect for comic effect. In outline it is similar to one of the stories in Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron. The old R
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April Fools Day Origins A Western cultural belief, the tradition of April Fools can date back centuries. The first recorded date was in the Nun’s Priest Tales in 1392 by Geoffrey Chaucer, the author of The Canterbury Tales. In the tale, a vain cockerel is tricked by a wily fox, very ...
On June 7, 1195, an English Benedictine Monk named Gervase of Canterbury watched as a great thunderstorm descended on the city of London. What happened next, recorded in Gervase’s 600-page Chronicle, defied the monk’s imagination: “On the 7th of the ides of June, around the sixth hour...
Geoffrey Chaucer(1343–1400): English poet and author of “The Canterbury Tales.” Giotto (1266-1337): Italian painter and architect whose more realistic depictions of human emotions influenced generations of artists. Best known for his frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. ...
My friend Jess “Gams” Guyer found an image of James’s will in the prerogative court at Canterbury. James named his wife Ann and eight children, but he probably had another son who had remained in York County and predeceased him. So far as I have found, three children never left Penn...
Must have changed pretty early on because "fart" appears in The Canterbury Tales in the late 14th Century. Maybe the "v" sound was close to the German "v" sound. VedWed Jul 27, 2005 2:59 am GMT For me, "orange" rhymes with "syringe". ...
The book The Canterbury Tales, written in 1392 by Geoffrey Chaucer, associated April 1st with foolishness. April Fools' Day pranks and hoaxes are meant to be harmless and funny. In 1698 an April Fools' Day joke tricked several individuals to go to see lions being washed at the Tower Of...