christian pilgrims and pilgrimages

Presents an annotated selection from Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval classic, "The Canterbury Tales, " a series of stories narrated by pilgrims on their way to the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. Includes the general prologue, sources and analogues, and critical essays.

Examines the lives of Christian pilgrims during the Middle Ages, looking at the types of foods they ate, the sights they visited, and the objects they sought on their journeys.

Presents Geoffrey Chaucer's classic collection of tales about pilgrims on their way to Canterbury Cathedral, and includes explanatory notes, an introduction, a Chaucer chronology, and a select bibliography.

Depicts the journey of Christian and his companions through mortal life to their entrance into the Celestial City.

Contains adaptations of thirteen tales told by a motley assortment of pilgrims traveling to Canterbury, England in about 1387.

A religious allegory which follows the trials and tribulations of Christian as he journeys to the Celestial City.

An illustrated retelling of Geoffrey Chaucer's famous work in which a group of pilgrims in fourteenth-century England tell each other stories as they travel on a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Canterbury.

A retelling in comic strip form of Geoffrey Chaucer's famous work in which a group of pilgrims in fourteenth-century England tell each other stories as they travel on a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Canterbury.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The precise, unerring, delicately emphatic characterizations for which The Canterbury Tales is so famous are no more extraordinary than Chaucer s utter mastery of English rhythms and his effortless versification. Ranging from animal fables to miniature epics of courtly love and savagely hilarious comedies of sexual comeuppance, these stories told by pilgrims on the way to the shrine of Thomas ? Becket in Canterbury reveal a teeming, vital fourteenth-century English society on the verge of its Renaissance.

The noble Knight, the tipsy Miller, the hypocritical Pardoner, the randy Wife of Bath, and other pilgrims trade stories on their way to the shrine of St. Thomas a Beckett at Canterbury.