Category: Book The Canterbury Tales

It is the month of April and spring has just begun. This means that people from all over the country collect at the Tabard Inn. Twenty-nine pilgrims and the Narrator have come to Southwark in London as a starting off point for the long road ahead of them. The journey is 4 days long and…

Chivalry in “The Knights Tale” and “The Miller’s Tale” One interesting aspect of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is the aspect of point and counterpoint which pervades the stories. Because Chaucer’s intention is to deeply examine the nature of the relationships (primarily erotic) which exist between men and women, his theme is articulated from what may……