By Caleb Prus Grief often feels as physical as it does emotional—like a weight on the chest, a flutter of the heart, or a tightening in the throat. The distinction between these physical and emotional symptoms is largely a product of modern medicine; in the premodern world, those boundaries were far blurrier. In The Canterbury Tales (c.1390), Chaucer’s Physician tells a story so tragic that the Host cries out, “I almost have caught a cardiacle”—a heart pain brought on by pity and so...| The Recipes Project
Sandra Fox Murphy—and Chaucer—find poems and chickens make for good company in Sandra's latest Poet Laura column. The post Poet Laura: Fables and Foxy Chickens appeared first on Tweetspeak Poetry.| Tweetspeak Poetry
I’ve written quite a bit over the last few weeks about what knights and soldiers wore over their armour and only briefly looked at what constituted that armour. We’re looking back to the thirteenth…| A Writer's Perspective
Jupon has at least two other spellings: gipon and (annoyingly, since I almost missed it in an index) gypon. It was a short padded and quilted garment worn over a suit of armour. The padding was usu…| A Writer's Perspective
Þas þing synt earfoðe on Englisc to secganne, se we wyllað þurh Cristes fultum hig onwreon, swa wel swa we betst magon, and þas meregrota þam beforan lecgan þe þisra gyman wyllað. Þæs anes dæges w…| For the Wynn
The Guardian have released this article about a document that’s supposedly been identified as Geoffrey Chaucer’s own handwriting. For one thing, that remains to be seen – the scholar making t…| The BS Historian
