A key to Chaucer’s continued critical success is the scope and diversity of his work, which extends from romance to tragedy, from sermon to dream vision, from pious saints’ lives to bawdy fabliaux. Each century’s readers have found something new in Chaucer...

Sparknotes: The Canterbury Tales.

Chevrefoil (honeysuckle) is a poem about adulterous love with tragic consequences.

This short lay relates an incident from the very well-known legend of Tristan and Isolde. Though scholars cannot place the exact date of Marie's compositions, it is likely that her audience would be extremely familiar with the legend from medieval romances,...

Written in Middle English, Everyman (full title: The Summoning of Everyman) makes use of allegorical characters to look at the question of Christian salvation and what Man must do to attain it. This is the Modern English translation.

This is the full Middle English version.

In the original middle English with modern English translation.. A helpful 'Background to the poem' notes that it celebrates the Annunciation when the angel Gabriel told Mary that she would miraculously conceive and give birth, as a virgin, to the son of God.

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From the British Library background information on Thomas Malory and his 'Morte D'Arthur'.

'Sir Patrick Spens' is one of the most popular ballads of Scottish origin.

This is the full text of Margery Kempe in the original Middle English.

This is a summary and analysis of the book considered to be the first autobiography writtenin the English language.

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The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry or The Grey Selkie of Suleskerry is a traditional folk song from Orkney.