This priory achieved notoriety in the prologue to the Prioress ' tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

While this says nothing about Chaucer's actual attitude toward Jews ( and antipathy would have been entirely typical of the period ), the Prioress's opinions should not be read as his own.

Works produced in this period include Filostrato and Teseida ( the sources for Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Tale, respectively ), Filocolo, a prose version of an existing French romance, and La caccia di Diana, a poem in terza rima listing Neapolitan women.

A tabard ( from the French tabarde ) was originally a humble outer garment of tunic form, generally without sleeves, worn by peasants, monks and foot-soldiers, including Chaucer's ploughman.

It was adopted into English from the French, and the first recorded use of it as a color name in English was in 1374 in Geoffrey Chaucer's work Troilus and Criseyde, where he refers to " a broche, gold and asure " ( a broach, gold and azure ).

In 1877 he published Chaucer: Studien zur Geschichte seiner Entwickelung und zur Chronologie seiner Schriften, a study which analyzed Chaucer's literary models and verse forms to determine the later widely accepted division of the poet's works into three periods: a first period during which he was mostly influenced by French models as well as by Ovid ; a second period during which his main inspiration came from Italian models ( Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch ); and a third period of mature literary production.

It also contains the principal manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, works by Matthew Paris and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, to name only a few.

In " The Miller's Tale " in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, a door is ripped off its hinges only to be slowly closed again in the next scene.

The story has several differences from Chaucer's in that the clerks do not plot against the innkeeper but are only there to get to his daughter.

Chaucer's popularizing of English as a medium of literary composition rather than Latin occurred only 50 years after Dante had started using Italian for serious poetry.

" In Chaucer's tale, and also in Top Girls, Griselda is chosen to be the wife of the Marquis, even though she is only a poor peasant girl.

Not only was this discovery -- if correct -- significant in shedding light on the relationship between a writer, his scrivener and their manuscripts at that time, it would also contribute to our understanding of one of Chaucer's shortest works.

Holofernes is depicted in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Monk's Tale in The Canterbury Tales, and in Dante's Purgatorio ( where Holofernes is to be found on the Terrace of Pride as an example of ' pride cast down ').

This was a barbed reference as it implied the Prioress had learned French from the Benedictine nuns in a distinct Anglo-Norman dialect.

This was a barbed reference, as it implied the Prioress had learned French, from the Benedictine nuns, in a distinct Anglo-Norman dialect, that by this time had lost prestige, and was being ridiculed as sub-standard French.

Chaucer, a poet moving in the court circles, noted the provincial French spoken by the Prioress among the Canterbury pilgrims:

The Prioress ' French accent is a sign of social climbing, yet her speech is modeled after the Stratford-at-Bow school, not the more desirable Parisian French.

* Mary ( 1285 – 1372, Paris ), Prioress of Poissy

* Mary ( 1285 – 1372, Paris ), Prioress of Poissy

* Agnes d ' Harcourt ( third Prioress of Longchamp, 1263 – 1270 ), Vie de Madame Isabelle, Archives Nationales L. 1021 MSS., Paris.

The Pardoner ’ s materialistic orientation, his suspicious relics and accusations of sinfulness ( evident in his conflict with the Host ) align him with Paul ’ s account of the “ outward Jew, circumcised only in the flesh ,” rather than the “ inward ” Jew of Romans 2. 29 who is spiritually rather than literally circumcised: “ the Pardoner, outwardly ‘ a noble ecclesiaste ,’ actually reduces Christianity to a code as rigorous and external as the Old Law itself .” In his tale, “ the Pardoner presents death as the wages of sin, an effect of justice ” while the “ Prioress, through the paradox of martyrdom, shows it as mercy, an effect of grace .”

The Reverend Mother Dolores Hart is Prioress of the Abbey ( since 2001 ), but she remains a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, having in recent years become the only nun to be an Oscar-voting member.

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

He knew nothing about the man's history.

She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.

yet he knew that he had nothing to grumble about, for Argiento made few demands on him.

Some years ago this Class was judged by celebrities who knew nothing of what was required of a Junior's ability to show a dog.

Instead he brought with him the names of some people he had never met and of whom the medium knew nothing.

Gun knew that nothing but aces back to back would give the lieutenant an ulcer and a smile at the same time.

The skiff was headed for the very center of the nebula -- toward that place which, Jack knew now, could hold nothing less important than the very core of the Angel's life and religion.

With one corner of his mind he knew that they were saying nothing, just expressing the euphoria of a drug so powerful that the known universe had forbidden it.

Howard Aiken, who built the quickly-obsoleted electromechanical calculator, the Harvard Mark I, between 1937 and 1945, praised Babbage's work likely as a way of enhancing his own stature, but knew nothing of the Analytical Engine's architecture during the construction of the Mark I, and considered his visit to the constructed portion of the Analytical Engine " the greatest disappointment of my life ".

Anaxarchus is said to have studied under Diogenes of Smyrna, who in turn studied under Metrodorus of Chios, who used to declare that he knew nothing, not even the fact that he knew nothing.

Although he had for many years " harbored an ambition to create work for a public square ", he " had never set foot in New York, and knew nothing about life in a rapidly evolving metropolis.

When Jackson returned briefly to England in 1889 to marry, Housman was not invited to the wedding and knew nothing about it until the couple had left the country.

They knew almost nothing about science.

He knew nothing of the reduced fees although he " soon recognised that he was from a poorer home ".

Fawkes's protestations that Gerard knew nothing of the plot were omitted from Coke's speech.

Medicine at the time of Hippocrates knew almost nothing of human anatomy and physiology because of the Greek taboo forbidding the dissection of humans.

" Diogenes relates that as a boy Heraclitus had said he " knew nothing " but later claimed to " know everything.

In the wake of the 2011 tsunami related nuclear disasters, it was discovered that as far back as the 2004 earthquake, authorities knew about the particular risks associated with the Fukushima Daiichi plant but did nothing.

A Justice Department spokeswoman said that Ashcroft knew nothing of the decision to spend $ 8, 000 for the curtains ; a spokesman said the decision for permanent curtains was intended to save on the $ 2, 000 per use rental costs of temporary curtains used for formal events.

In Carla's Song, the bus driver, played by Robert Carlyle, knew nothing of Carla's attempted suicide until he discovered her in the bath.

Until age 12 he knew nothing of professional artists, though art had surrounded him in childhood.