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.
A selection from the "Canterbury Tales," in which members of a company of pilgrims discuss their lives and adventures while on their way to the shrine of St. Thomas at Canterbury.
Human history is stained all too frequently with crimes so enormous in scale that we find them ungraspable: genocides, pogroms, mass deportations, crimes against whole races and whole nationalities.