After my previous encounters with the Canterbury Tales, I've decided to read the entire thing. As before, I think that reading a modern translation loses the interesting parts of the language and screws up the poetry, so I want to read it in Middle English. and just because I can, I'm reading (a copy of) a 600-year old handwritten version. Those ( Read more... )

( A wandering tale of 15th century manuscripts and 20th century typesetting, including )