Nottingham University has sparked outrage after issuing a trigger warning for Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales over “expressions of Christian faith”. The decision has drawn sharp criticism from academics who view it as an overreaction and a misunderstanding of the work’s historical context. The warning for the module called ‘Chaucer and His Contemporaries’ also alerts students to instances of violence and mental illness in the works of Chaucer and other medieval writers. Critics argue that the approach demeans education and demonstrates a lack of understanding of the Christian-centric m…
