City of Canterbury

About Visit Canterbury Visit Canterbury is the official tourist information website for the English district of Canterbury. The website is kept by the official administrative tourist board of the district of Canterbury. It is focused on promoting the region for tourism, but it’s also a great place for businesses and media organisations interested in the region. You can find a whole lot of information on the website regarding the region. You can view more about things to do in the area, where to stay, as well as find out exclusive offers from Canterbury’s businesses. If you want to visit the region, you can even use the website to book your stay. The website also has a lovely eShop, where you can buy things related to this region. Customer Support Whether you are looking to book holiday accommodation or visit some of…

The time period of the medieval era was one of many poetic advances with Geoffery Chaucer leading this frontier. Chaucer lead the way for poetry during these years. One of his greatest works, the “Canterbury Tales,” Provides grounds for scholars to compare it to modern text: “There are not many differences among good modern texts on these matters, although some notable cruxes remain to be argued over” (Canterbury Tales). Throughout the characters’ travels in the “Canterbury Tales,” the feudal,…

Chaucer, the narrator, opens the General Prologue with a describing the flourishing plants, and the chirping birds of April. Around this time of year people begin go on a pilgrimage to visit shrines and religious monuments in distant holy lands, but the majority during this time choose to travel to Canterbury. Canterbury is the site of Canterbury Cathedral where the relics of Saint Thomas Becket are stored. Pilgrims journey there to thank the martyr for helping them in their time of need.…

Author Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales toward the end of the medieval period. Regarded as the first true English poetic masterwork, The Canterbury Tales describes twenty-nine pilgrims on a journey to Canterbury Cathedral to see the shrine of St. Thomas Becket. Chaucer describes many fictional characters from the different social classes in the Middle Ages; in particular, he includes many figures affiliated with the Church such as the Friar and the Summoner. These two characters share…

Chaucer’s use of Satire to Obtain His Intended Audience) From generation to generation there have always been people who want to drastically change the way the human system has been set up. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 50’s and 60’s with civil rights; or Christ himself about 2000 years ago, they wanted to change the way we a human's looked at the world. Geoffrey Chaucer, commonly referred to as the “Father of English Literature” because he was the first poet to write in vernacular English…

Many times in society, important figures or celebrities often live two different lifestyles. When in the public eye, they portray themselves as someone that would appeal to the people. Behind closed doors, however, they are someone completely different. This is especially evident in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Chaucer uses ironic characteristics of the Friar and Merchant from “The Prologue” and the Knight from “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” to criticize the deceptive nature of the…

More Pilgrims (An Analysis of Three People Chaucer Would Add to The Group Today) Many ways of life have changed between the years of 1300 and today, 700 years after. Technology, medicine and construction are just a few ways we as humans have discovered superior ways to enhance our ever changing lives. With the change of the modern world, people also began to change. Style, language and the way we act as humans beings has been constantly evolving. In the novel Canterbury Tales written by the…

In the intro of “The Canterbury Tales” the setting and mood of the town of Canterbury is set. The time period is around spring, I can identify this from lines 1-4 in the introduction. It states that rain in April ended the drought in March,and “generated” the flowers. These lines sound like a modern nursery rhyme “ April showers, bring May flowers”. Englishmen that traveled to Canterbury can be described as loyal or pure at heart. I believe that this foreshadows the personalities of the…

As depicted by the countless sold copies of this sort, tragedies appeal to the pathos of human pity. Having been distinguished from their beginning in ancient Greece, when authors such as Sophocles and Homer wrote rhetorics that are still being taught today. In fact, famous, talented Elizabethan playwright, William Shakespeare is best known for his tragedies including the acclaimed Romeo and Juliet. Therefore, it is no surprise that he exquisitely produced the play “Othello”, illustrating the…

In my essay I will first sate the traits of an ideal knight and then discuss the characteristics of an ideal knight as represented in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight while comparing and contrasting them to the characteristics of ideal knights in traditional texts. Quoting examples from the text, I will then discuss, analyze and come to a conclusion if Sir Gawain has been represented as an ideal knight in the 14th century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. During the Middle Ages and in many…