Boethian influence can be found nearly everywhere in Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry, e. g. in Troilus and Criseyde, The Knight's Tale, The Clerk's Tale, The Franklin's Tale, The Parson's Tale and The Tale of Melibee, in the character of Lady Nature in The Parliament of Fowls and some of the shorter poems, such as Truth, The Former Age and Lak of Stedfastnesse.

In " The Knight's Tale " in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Emily prays to Diana to be spared from marriage to either Palamon or Arcite.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this was in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Hous of Fame, ca.

It appears in several of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

While chivalric romances abound, particularly notable literary portrayals of knighthood include Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote, as well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur and other Arthurian tales ( Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, etc.

The story has been recounted in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Legend of Good Women, John Gower's Confessio Amantis ( Book VII ), and John Lydgate's Fall of Princes.

Among medieval literary texts, Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde plays a special role because Chaucer's usage seems to challenge the truth value of proverbs by exposing their epistemological unreliability.

Another interesting record of medieval rhetorical thought can be seen in the many animal debate poems popular in England and the continent during the Middle Ages, such as The Owl and the Nightingale ( 13th century ) and Geoffrey Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls ( 1382?

In Europe, the oral story-telling tradition began to develop into written stories in the early 14th century, most notably with Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron.

Around c. 1380 – 1400, the issue of feminine sovereignty was addressed in Geoffrey Chaucer's Middle English collection of Canterbury Tales, specifically in The Wife of Bath's Tale.

Theseus likewise appears as a major character in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale.

* Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is set in a company of pilgrims on their way from Southwark to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.

It occurs in countless variations from recipe collections from all over Europe and is mentioned in the prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and in an early 15th century cookbook written by the chefs of Richard II.

This story appears to have influenced later European tales such as Adenes Le Roi's Cleomades and " The Squire's Prologue and Tale " told in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

This pilgrimage provided the theme for Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th-century literary classic The Canterbury Tales.

This pilgrimage provided the framework for Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th-century collection of stories, The Canterbury Tales.

Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary ( 1980 ) offers an alternative take on the historical view of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale as being a paragon of Christian virtue.

The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale appears in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

The income from pilgrims ( such as those portrayed in Geoffrey Chaucer's " Canterbury Tales ") who visited

Examples of sexual innuendo and double-entendre occur in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales ( 14th century ), in which the Wife of Bath's Tale is laden with double entendres.

He is portrayed as a tyrant in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, and in a later adaptation of the same story, William Shakespeare's and John Fletcher's play The Two Noble Kinsmen.

* 1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II.

* The Canterbury Tales, a 14th century collection of stories by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century.

In 1373 Geoffrey Chaucer visited and among the pilgrims in his Canterbury Tales

Use of the heroic couplet was first pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales.

* 1887 – Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury ( d. 1972 )

Geoffrey Chaucer, whose Canterbury Tales shares many sources with various Decameron tales, including IX, 6.

* September 15 – Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury ( b. 1887 )

* May 5 – Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury ( d. 1972 )

* The Monkes Tale – Geoffrey Chaucer, Notes to the Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer also did much to popularize this view among speakers of English with his Canterbury Tales ( Wife of Bath's Prologue, v. 117-118 )

At the same time, the vernacular saw a revival as a literary language, through the works of William Langland, John Gower and especially The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

At its head was an abbot, the first incumbent being Geoffrey of Canterbury, former prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, the Kent monastery that probably supplied Dunfermline's first monks.

Mordred, Arthur's final foe according to Geoffrey of Monmouth, illustrated by Henry Justice Ford | H. J. Ford for Andrew Lang's King Arthur: The Tales of the Round Table, 1902

Geoffrey Chaucer mentions Jack Straw, one of the leaders of the revolt, in his satiric The Nun's Priest's Tale in The Canterbury Tales.

For example, according to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Noah ’ s wife was just such an individual ("" Hastow nought herd ", quod Nicholas, " also / The sorwe of Noë with his felaschippe / That he had or he gat his wyf to schipe ""; The Miller ’ s Tale, l. 352 – 354 ).

His life and the sacrifices he made to keep going despite pain and impending death were the subject of the 1942 British film, The First of the Few produced and directed by Leslie Howard, with Howard in the starring role of R. J. Mitchell, and David Niven as ' Geoffrey Crisp ', based on the Supermarine test pilot Jeffrey Quill who flew the aerobatic sequences for the film in a Spitfire MkII.

* Munn, Geoffrey, ' Southwold: An Earthly Paradise ', Antique Collectors Club, ( Woodbridge, 2006 ) ISBN 185149518590000

* Geoffrey Holmes, ' The Sacheverell Riots: The Crowd and the Church in Early Eighteenth-Century London ', Past and Present, No. 72 ( Aug., 1976 ), pp. 55 – 85.

Other collectors included Henry and Robert Hammond in Dorset, the Reverend Geoffrey Hill in Wiltshire, Percy Grainger in Gloucestershire and, perhaps the most famous, Ralph Vaughan Williams ' ' Folk Songs from Somerset ', which provided themes for his English Folk Song Suite.

According to the South African writer Geoffrey Jenkins, " Others however, attribute the name as having come from the word ' Potscherf ', meaning broken pot, due to the cracks that appear in the soil of the Mooi River Valley during drought resembling a broken pot ".

A new medical centre, ' Super Clinic ', owned by the controversial Dr. Geoffrey Edelsten is due to open at the Mercure Hotel in late 2010.

Geoffrey Lambert, ' Manitoba ', Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs, 1988, pp 252 – 260.

* Geoffrey Cantor, ' Presidential Address: Charles Singer and the early years of the British Society for the History of Science ', The British Journal for the History of Science 30 ( 1997 ), 5-23. doi 10. 1017 / S0007087496002865

Mooney's identification has, however, been questioned and doubted by several specialists, and it has by no means been accepted by all others: see for example, Simon Horobin, ' Adam Pinkhurst, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales ', The Chaucer Review, 44 no. 4 ( 2010 ) and Jane Roberts, ' On Giving Scribe B a Name and a Clutch of London manuscripts from c. 1400 ', Medium Aevum, 80 ( 2011 )

Hugh Kenner has praised his ' intent eloquence ', and Geoffrey Hill his ' unrivalled critical intelligence '.

It is notable that Arthur's father was Uther Pendragon (' Pendragon ': ' Pen ' ( Head ) and ' Dragon ', being translated by Geoffrey as " dragon's head ").

* Geoffrey Quilley, ' The Battle of the Pictures: Painting the History of Trafalgar ', in David Cannadine ( ed.

* Geoffrey Parker, ' The Dreadnought Revolution of Tudor England ', Mariner's Mirror, 82 ( 1996 ): 269 – 300.