The University of Nottingham has put a trigger warning on Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales because they contain 'expressions of Christian faith'.
A leading university has provoked fury for putting a 'ludicrous' trigger warning on Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales because they contain 'expressions of Christian faith'.
It alerts them to incidences of violence, mental illness and 'expressions of Christian faith' in the works of Chaucer and fellow medieval writers William Langland, John Gower, and Thomas Hoccleve. Another author on the list, Langland, writes about 'rich ecclesiastical politics' and 'Christian virtue' in the classic poem 'Piers Plowman'.
'To censor expressions of the Christian faith is to erase our literary heritage. True education engages and fosters understanding, not avoidance. Andrea Williams, chief executive of Christian Concern, said: 'From what point in history are we going to censor literary texts, given most are steeped in a Christian worldview?'
'If you are going to read a book about a pilgrimage, then the Christian faith will come into it. I can't see how you would make sense of the work without an understanding of the references to Christianity.' Read More 'Woke' NHS hospitals make call to ban sayings like 'blind leading the blind' John Sutherland, emeritus professor of modern English literature at University College London, said the warning was not worthy of a university which had educated author DH Lawrence.
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