Tag Archives: Canterbury Tales

Christ’s Love for Hot Barley Bread

By Robin Bates | Published: July 29, 2012

Chaucer’s Wife of Bath may not be pure, but Jesus would appreciate her great heart.

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Palin, Mama Grizzlies, and the Wife of Bath

By Robin Bates | Published: November 15, 2010

There was a lot of talk about Sarah Palin’s “Mama Grizzlies” this past election season. The image, which conjures up mothers fiercely defending their threatened young, has never made logical sense to me as a rightwing symbol. After all, shouldn’t mothers be fighting fiercely for social safety net programs (which Sarah Palin attacks) and against […]

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Chaucer’s Answer to Catholic Corruption

By Robin Bates | Published: April 5, 2010

Like many, I have been appalled at the non-stop stories of abuse coming out of the Catholic Church and depressed by the Church’s response.  The latest egregious example of the latter is the pope’s personal preacher comparing newspaper accusations of the pope to the persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust. Calling Geoffrey Chaucer, to […]

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