When I was researching my 'guide' to medieval England, no writer brought to life that period as richly and vividly as Geoffrey Chaucer ... modern English, marking a shift from the Old English ...

The pronunciation derives from the Old English verb "acsian." Chaucer used "ax." It's in the first complete English translation of the Bible (the Coverdale Bible): " 'Axe and it shall be given.' ...

These three copies of Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales,” are part of a privately owned collection of Middle English texts just ... work and shed light on the period and different social ...

"We want the public, not just academics, to see the manuscript as Chaucer would have likely thought of it—as a performance that mixed drama and humor," University of Saskatchewan English ...