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A revelatory portrait of the first great English poet and his times, on the six hundredth anniversary of his death. While Chaucer's comic masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, has brilliantly illuminated human life in the Middle Ages for readers over the past six centuries, the inner life of its... read more

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ON 28 DECEMBER 1999, a pilgrimage of Christians was making its way to pay respects to the memory of Archbishop Thomas Becket at Canterbury.

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  1. Richard West (Author)
 

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