Paul Olson argues that Chaucer's narratives emerge from his deep concern about the crises of late fourteenth-century England and his vision of the renewal of th

It's the Middle Ages, and an ill-matched band of strangers is setting off on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. To amuse themselves along the way, they hold a storytel

The Broadview Canterbury Tales is an edition of the complete tales in a text based on the famous Ellesmere Manuscript. Here one may read a Middle English text t

“This book has been more helpful to the students—both the better ones and the lesser ones—than any other book I have ever used in any of my classes in my

“This book has been more helpful to the students—both the better ones and the lesser ones—than any other book I have ever used in any of my classes in my