CANTERBURY, England — After almost 1,000 years, murder in the cathedral is still luring visitors to Canterbury. At the Canterbury Cathedral in 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket was killed by four knights ...

I began my journey at the gates of the magnificent Canterbury Cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the destination of the pilgrims in Chaucer’s book. On a damp spring morning, I found myself ...

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CANTERBURY, England | After nearly 1,000 years, murder in the cathedral is still luring visitors to Canterbury. It was in the Canterbury Cathedral in 1170 that Archbishop Thomas Becket was killed, ...

Geoffrey Chaucer's “Canterbury Tales” are part of the literary canon. Working through the collection of 14th-century stories, written in Middle English, is practically a rite of passage for anyone ...

In 1985, Mr. Kilinski, my senior-year high school English teacher, put Geoffrey Chaucer’s magnum opus “The Canterbury Tales” on the syllabus. The plot: A motley crew of people from different walks of ...

“Chaucer’s Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury” by Paul Strohm (Viking Penguin Group, 283 pages, $28.95) Geoffrey Chaucer, who died obscurely in 1400, achieved, rather quickly, a posthumous renown ...

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The well-worn pages inside the marbled cover of a first-edition “Canterbury Tales” book is carefully stored in a special slipcover at Saint Vincent College in Unity. The book is dated 1478. In the ...

It was in the Canterbury Cathedral in 1107 that Archbishop Thomas Becket was viciously killed by four knights who believed they were doing the bidding of King Henry II. As a result, Becket became a ...