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New on 's online image resource! Four studies by Edward Burne-Jones for Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women', 1863. Cressida, Constance, Dorigen & Griselda.
https://t.co/ZnKuc3AtO3

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2021-06-16

Honeysuckle (woodbine) is the birth flower for June, along with the rose. Twined around the front door it will protect your house from harm, & placed in a vase it will attract money. To Chaucer “wodebyne” symbolised steadfastness in love. Img: Cicely Barker

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2021-06-15

“That fro the tyme that he first bigan
To riden out, he loved chivalrie,
Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie.”
-- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, ll. 44-46 🖤

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2021-06-06

17 April 1397: English and Geoffrey known as the Father of English tells The Tales for the first time at the court of King Richard II. https://t.co/SldsjAVVMY

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2021-04-18

“People can die of mere imagination…” Chaucer first relayed The Canterbury Tales to the court of Richard II 1397. His pilgrims offer a variety of insights into customs & practices of the time, & paint an ironic & critical portrait of English society, especially the Church.

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2021-04-17

9 Mar 1616: Francis Beaumont, playwright, interred in Abbey near &

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2021-03-10

Last year (or three thousand months ago) I adapted Chaucer’s “Nun’s Priest’s Tale” as a comic.

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2021-02-27

Dating from 1382, Chaucer celebrated the engagement of the 15 year-old King Richard II to Anne of Bohemia via a poem, in which he wrote: For this was on St. Valentine’s Day, when every bird (fowl) cometh to choose his mate.

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2021-02-14

Chaucer And I



she maken
vertue of necessite
cheekiness
fauve sermonette
Right as an aspen lefe
she gan to quake
as glean pinfeathers
ego quash ‘n take
a literary confession be
reason’s aconite...
briefly

retold a Pardoner’s story
Art’s sadder poltroonery

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2021-02-05

Also included Chaucer and a pigeon!

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2021-01-30

A commission of Rousseau Chaucer d'Artois! They're a Grail Knight, played by

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2021-01-24

In fact, the English were well acquainted w/ the method by which the local people fished for eel. William Bradord wrote that Tisquantum "trod them out with his feet"...a means of fishing that Chaucer had written about as common in England several centuries earlier. 3/6

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2020-11-26

en 1342 nació Juliana de Nordwich, escritora contemporánea de Chaucer. Fue la primera en lengua inglesa. La Iglesia católica, luterana y anglicana la veneran como Santa. En sus escritos místicos, asocia lo femenino al concepto de divinidad.

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2020-11-08

"Yes, they even banned The Canterbury Tales."
2017 https://t.co/RgcbLNPMyh
Some Chaucer in the collections here (fully digitized) Takamiya MS 32 https://t.co/LKz7eG0SL5 Takamiya MS 24 https://t.co/ixTnrPMwmq

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2020-10-03

Hey, , show us your best Chaucer.

This famous portrait is found in a manuscript of Thomas Hoccleve’s Regiment of Princes. It’s online here:

Harley MS 4866, f. 88r
https://t.co/1QuQJbqtXv

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2020-09-22

Switch the plots and casts between A Knight’s Tale and Over The Top and you get Geoffrey Chaucer orating about arm wrestling and Sly Stallone jousting and the world would have been immeasurably better.

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2020-09-08


is in fact a re-boot of the romance .... which also reappears in the Wife of Bath's Tale in .... the moral of the tale being that what women want most is

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2020-09-01

I've been playing around with character designs for The Miller's Tale, the raunchiest of Chaucer's work and one of my favorites

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2020-08-26

Hello - just wanted to pop in to mention I have a couple minicomics as well as copies of “Princess Wolf and her Life of Darkness” by Bee and myself available in my shop. Printed Chaucer comic available soon as well! https://t.co/x5DyQJSx8E Hugs!

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2020-08-16