I have just started reading “The Good Wife of Bath” by Karen Brooks. I am familiar with the Wife of Bath from my previous ...
Walking holidays are all the rage and if they're on your radar, this is how to do one of the best pilgrimage routes in the UK ...
Sajni Mukherji, a revered professor and much loved “Sajnidi” to generations of Jadavpur University students, breathed her ...
Wander down Bradford Street and you'll find yourself stepping back in time. This historic road is a treasure trove of stories ...
Many students have learned the opening lines of Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales”: “Whan that Aprill ... It meant “And pilgrims start to seek foreign shores to distant shrines, known ...
Up on Seaford Head – a blustery clifftop on the East Sussex coast – the south of England’s newest secret is hidden in plain ...
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The popularity of the Tabard Inn with these pilgrims was no doubt the reason that Geoffrey Chaucer chose it to be starting point for The Canterbury Tales. “Bifel that in that season on a day, In ...
In 1373 Chaucer visited the area, and later wrote of a “Shipman of Dartmouth,” one of the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales. The Shipman was a skilled sailor but also a pirate, and it is said that ...