The context of the Tales is a pilgrimage in 1390, from Southwark in London to the shrine of St Thomas Beckett in Canterbury. Set at a time when England was experiencing an economic shake-up ...

His shrine drew pilgrims seeking cures—or simply a roistering good time—as immortalized in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi set out with 78 followers from Sabarmati Ashram ...

The modern city of Canterbury juxtaposes the medieval cathedral and its saint (the object of Chaucer’s pilgrimage) with contemporary buildings ... In the joyous spirit of Chaucer’s clerk in The ...

The fact that Chaucer wrote in English (now referred to as Middle English), rather than French or Latin like many of his fellow writers, meant that ordinary folk could enjoy the Canterbury Tales ...

Listen to Ambridge's The Canterbury Tales specials, part 1 and 2 ... Six hundred years separate this version from the original but those pilgrims on their way to Canterbury have a lot in common ...