The University of Nottingham has sparked debate by issuing a content warning for “expressions of Christian faith” in a medieval literature course. Students enrolled in the “Chaucer and his Contemporaries” module received cautions about potential distress from religious themes in classic texts. The warning covers works like Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” and William Langland’s “Piers […]
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