diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index 0496bc7748e..bd2d64964b4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -11,16 +11,16 @@ jobs:
         include:
         - name: py36
           python: 3.6
-          docutils: du16
+          docutils: du14
         - name: py37
           python: 3.7
-          docutils: du16
+          docutils: du15
         - name: py38
           python: 3.8
-          docutils: du17
+          docutils: du16
         - name: py39
           python: 3.9
-          docutils: du18
+          docutils: du17
           coverage: "--cov ./ --cov-append --cov-config setup.cfg"
         - name: py310
           python: "3.10"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1b7330e2e4e..8280b0c4ede 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
     'sphinxcontrib-qthelp',
     'Jinja2>=2.3',
     'Pygments>=2.0',
-    'docutils>=0.16,<0.19',
+    'docutils>=0.14,<0.19',
     'snowballstemmer>=1.1',
     'babel>=1.3',
     'alabaster>=0.7,<0.8',
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index cc851d13b09..486c9badc8a 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tox]
 minversion = 2.4.0
-envlist = docs,flake8,mypy,twine,coverage,py{36,37,38,39,310},du{16,17,18}
+envlist = docs,flake8,mypy,twine,coverage,py{36,37,38,39,310},du{14,15,16,17,18}
 
 [testenv]
 usedevelop = True
@@ -16,8 +16,10 @@ passenv =
     TERM
 description =
     py{36,37,38,39,310}: Run unit tests against {envname}.
-    du{16,17,18}: Run unit tests with the given version of docutils.
+    du{14,15,16,17,18}: Run unit tests with the given version of docutils.
 deps =
+    du14: docutils==0.14.*
+    du15: docutils==0.15.*
     du16: docutils==0.16.*
     du17: docutils==0.17.*
     du18: docutils==0.18.*