′Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.′Written at the end of the fourteenth century, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer′s The Canterbury Tales are a collection of stories told in Middle-English. Thirty pil
During his life, Geoffrey Chaucer (born c.1340) was courtier, diplomat, revenue collector, administrator, negotiator, overseer of building projects, landowner and knight of the shire. He was servant,
"The Canterbury Tales", compiled in the late fourteenth century, is an incisive portrait, infused with Chaucer's wry wit and vibrant, poetical language. He evokes a spectrum of colourful characters, f
