Many years ago when I taught Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,” a medieval 14th century, often satirical poem, my students and I read the “Tale of the Prioress.” What has this portion of the “Tales” to do ...

Across the centuries, starting in Norwich and Lincoln in England, the blood libel has served as a weapon in the armoury of antisemitism. Put simply, the story (fabricated and quite inconceivable) was ...

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Edgar-nominee Frazer delivers another well-wrought tale of intrigue and murder in her 11th novel (after 2001's The Squire's Tale) to feature nun and amateur sleuth Dame Frevisse. Here our heroine ...

One cheer for Philip Kennicott for calling attention to the anti-Semitic screed in the Royal Shakespeare Company's "Canterbury Tales" ["Chaucer's Slurring Words," Arts, May 7]. But he was off in ...