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.

* In Geoffrey Chaucer's, ' The Canterbury Tales ', there are numerous references.

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.

" The Miller's Tale " () is the second of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ( 1380s-1390s ), told by the drunken miller Robyn to " quite " ( requite ) " The Knight's Tale ".

Few doors with cat holes have survived from this early period, but the 14th-century English writer Geoffrey Chaucer described one in the " Miller's Tale " from his Canterbury Tales.

* Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, ( the Miller's Tale is a story that humorously examines the life of a cuckold ).

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Miller's Prologue and Tale became a vivid satire on these collections and the abuse they found wherever they were just brought into monotonous litanies.

* The tales of King Midas have been told by many with some variations: by John Dryden ; by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Wife of Bath's Tale ; making Midas ' queen the betrayer of the secret ( as Midas ' wife, Aristotle names Demodike ( or Hermodike ) of Kyme ; Eudemus fr.

In the Reeve's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer ( circa 1386 ) it appears as " cokenay ", and the meaning is " a child tenderly brought up, an effeminate fellow, a milksop ".

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

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 ).

A medieval variation is alluded to in Geoffrey Chaucer ’ s Canterbury Tales at the beginning of the “ Knight ’ s Tale ,” where it says: “ Certainly, if it were not too lengthy to listen to, I would have told you fully how the realm of Scythia was conquered by Theseus and his knights ; of the great battle on that occasion between the Athenians and the Amazons ; how Hippolyta, the fair, brave queen of Scythia, was besieged ; of the feast at their wedding ; and of the tempest at their home-coming .”

" The Pardoner's Tale ", a story from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer may contain a reference to the Wandering Jew.

" The Reeve's Tale " from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales begins:

Geoffrey Chaucer visited Castile during Peter's reign and lamented the monarch's death in The Monk's Tale, part of The Canterbury Tales.

In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, one of the characters is a summoner ( see " The Summoner's Tale "); a Middle English spelling is Somonour.

According to the medieval chronicler Geoffrey Gaimar, after the Battle of Stamford Bridge Harold entrusted the loot gained from Harold Hardrada to Ealdred.

* Stone, Geoffrey R. Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from The Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism ( 2004 )

Peter Mandelson, Trade and Industry Secretary, resigns after failing to disclose £ 373, 000 loan from Paymaster General Geoffrey Robinson.

In the words of Geoffrey Crowther, then editor of The Economist, " If the economic relationships between nations are not, by one means or another, brought fairly close to balance, then there is no set of financial arrangements that can rescue the world from the impoverishing results of chaos.

Historian Geoffrey Hosking in his 2005 Modern Scholar lecture course suggested that citizenship in ancient Greece arose from an appreciation for the importance of freedom.

Geoffrey Noer was the project lead from 1996 to 1998.

Other places in Britain with names related to " Camel " have also been suggested, such as Camelford in Cornwall, located down the River Camel from where Geoffrey places Camlann, the scene of Arthur's final battle.

Geoffrey of Monmouth Latinised this to Caliburnus ( likely influenced by the medieval Latin spelling calibs of Classical Latin chalybs, from Greek " χάλυψ ", " steel "), the name of Arthur's sword in his 12th-century work Historia Regum Britanniae.

From there ' the younger Henry, devising evil against his father from every side by the advice of the French King, went secretly into Aquitaine where his two youthful brothers, Richard and Geoffrey, were living with their mother, and with her connivance, so it is said, he incited them to join him '.

A man named Braithwaite ( Geoffrey Weeks ) from British Intelligence approaches Lee and asks for his help in an undercover mission.

Geoffrey provides prehistoric London with a rich array of legendary kings, such as King Lud ( see also Lludd, from Welsh Mythology ) who, he claims, renamed the town CaerLudein, from which London was derived, and was buried at Ludgate.

Hengist — here Geoffrey notes whose " years and wisdom entitled him to precedence "— responds for the company, stating that they have come from their homeland of Saxony, and that they had come to offer their services to Vortigern or some other prince.

" Geoffrey refers to Hengist as a " man of experience and subtilty ," and records that Hengist told Vortigern that Vortigern's enemies assail him from every quarter, and that few of Vortigern's subjects love him.

Many of the later sources may also have formed part of a propaganda effort designed to create a history for the people of Ireland that could bear comparison with the mythological descent of their British invaders from the founders of Rome that was promulgated by Geoffrey of Monmouth and others.

Richard refused to give up Aquitaine ; Henry II was furious and ordered John, with help from Geoffrey, to march south and retake the duchy by force.

How much of Geoffrey's Historia ( completed in 1138 ) was adapted from such earlier sources, rather than invented by Geoffrey himself, is unknown.

The textual sources for Arthur are usually divided into those written before Geoffrey's Historia ( known as pre-Galfridian texts, from the Latin form of Geoffrey, Galfridus ) and those written afterwards, which could not avoid his influence ( Galfridian, or post-Galfridian, texts ).

The later manuscripts of the Triads are partly derivative from Geoffrey of Monmouth and later continental traditions, but the earliest ones show no such influence and are usually agreed to refer to pre-existing Welsh traditions.

Certainly, Geoffrey seems to have made use of the list of Arthur's twelve battles against the Saxons found in the 9th-century Historia Brittonum, along with the battle of Camlann from the Annales Cambriae and the idea that Arthur was still alive.

" Finally, Geoffrey borrowed many of the names for Arthur's possessions, close family and companions from the pre-Galfridian Welsh tradition, including Kaius ( Cei ), Beduerus ( Bedwyr ), Guenhuuara ( Gwenhwyfar ), Uther ( Uthyr ) and perhaps also Caliburnus ( Caledfwlch ), the latter becoming Excalibur in subsequent Arthurian tales.

Geoffrey Ashe is one dissenter from this view, believing that Geoffrey's narrative is partially derived from a lost source telling of the deeds of a 5th-century British king named Riotamus, this figure being the original Arthur, although historians and Celticists have been reluctant to follow Ashe in his conclusions.

Buchanan was not as credulous as many, and he did not include the tale of MacAlpin's treason, a story from Giraldus Cambrensis, who reused a tale of Saxon treachery at a feast in Geoffrey of Monmouth's inventive Historia Regum Britanniae.