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In " The Miller's Tale " in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, a door is ripped off its hinges only to be slowly closed again in the next scene.
What is probably the coronation ceremony is attended by Stigand, whose position as Archbishop of Canterbury was controversial .< sup >( scene 31 )</ sup > Stigand is performing a liturgical function, possibly not the crowning itself.
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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was a member of Canterbury scene bands Carol Grimes and Delivery and then Kevin Ayers and the Whole World.
In England, the jazz fusion movement was headed by Nucleus, led by Ian Carr, and whose key players Karl Jenkins and John Marshall both later joined the seminal jazz rock band Soft Machine, leaders of what became known as the Canterbury scene.
* Caravan ( band ), a Canterbury scene band
The Canterbury scene ( or Canterbury sound ) is a term used to loosely describe the group of progressive rock, avant-garde and jazz musicians, many of whom were based around the city of Canterbury, Kent, England during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The Canterbury scene is largely defined by a set of musicians and bands with intertwined memberships.
Dave Stewart has complained at the nomenclature as he and many other musicians identified with the Canterbury scene never had anything to do with Canterbury, the place.
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In 1968, Can formed by two former students of Karlheinz Stockhausen, adding jazz to the mix ( and in that way the krautrock scene can be seen to parallel the emerging Canterbury scene in England at the same time ), while the following year saw Kluster ( later Cluster ) begin recording keyboard-based electronic instrumental music with an emphasis on static drones.
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They were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene, and helped pioneer the progressive rock genre.
* Facelift Magazine-exploring the Canterbury scene and beyond
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Ayers was a founding member of the pioneering psychedelic band Soft Machine in the late 1960s, and was closely associated with the Canterbury scene.
Ayers returned to England at the age of twelve, and in his early college years took up with the burgeoning musicians ' scene in the Canterbury area.
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Gorky's also released a number of singles and EPs on Ankst, demonstrating a taste for psychedelia and playfulness evidently inspired by the Canterbury scene of the 1960s and 1970s ( Kevin Ayers ' album Shooting at the Moon is cited in the notes to Tatay as " the best LP of all time ", and the record also includes a version of Robert Wyatt's " O, Caroline ").

Canterbury and British
Since Henry VIII broke with Rome, the Archbishops of Canterbury have been selected by the English ( British since the Act of Union in 1707 ) monarch.
* HMS Canterbury, several ships of the British navy
Some of the symbolism within the coronation ceremony for British monarchs, in which they are anointed with holy oils by the Archbishop of Canterbury, thereby ordaining them to monarchy, perpetuates the ancient Roman Catholic monarchical ideas and ceremonial ( although few Protestants realize this, the ceremony is nearly entirely based upon that of the Coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor ).
* April 23 – Michael Ramsey, British bishop, 100th Archbishop of Canterbury ( b. 1904 )
The King's School is a British co-educational independent school for both day and boarding pupils in the historic English cathedral city of Canterbury in Kent.
Canterbury is, however, a relatively small city, when compared with other British cities.
To make this clearer they locate the origin of the legend in the course of the 7th century, during the dissensions between the British Church and the nascent mission of St. Augustine of Canterbury to the Saxons, recently arrived from Rome.
Bede implies that in the time of Augustine of Canterbury, British churches used a baptismal rite that was in some way at variance with the Roman practice.
The College also employs British university students either from the University of Kent or from Canterbury Christ Church University as Conversation Teachers.
Provenance: probably transferred from Yorkshire before it was held in Canterbury and then acquired by the British Library.
Now held in the British Library, it has been dated to the late 14th century, so the poet was a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales, though it is highly unlikely that they ever met.
According to the British Geological Survey, an earthquake was recorded on 11 September 1275, which was felt in London, Canterbury and Wales, and this quake destroyed the church .< ref >
* British History Online Archbishops of Canterbury accessed on 11 September 2007
Since its inception, notable guest editors have included: David Blunkett, who used the programme as an opportunity to ' turn the tables ' on John Humphrys in 2005 ; Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, whose appearance on 29 December 2006 encompassed discussions of his growing concerns about the ' justification ' for the invasion of Iraq, Britain's role in the affair, and the consequences for British armed forces ; and Peter Hennessy, who, on 28 December 2007, led a visit to HMS Vigilant ( a British Trident submarine ) alongside its base at Faslane.
A Canterbury Tale is a 1944 British film by the film-making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
The President of the United States is customarily sworn in by the Chief Justice of the United States, and the British sovereign is always crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
In the same year she founded the Information Network Focus on Religious Movements ( INFORM ), with the support of the Archbishop of Canterbury and financial help from the British Home Office.
The cathedral's master plan was designed by George Frederick Bodley, a highly regarded British Gothic Revival architect of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, and was influenced by Canterbury.
The Jerusalem bishopric, with the consent of the British government and the active encouragement of the archbishop of Canterbury and the bishop of London, was duly established, endowed with Prussian and English money, and remained for some forty years an isolated symbol of Protestant unity and a rock of stumbling to Anglican Catholics.
Many prominent British avant-garde or fusion musicians began their career in Canterbury bands, such as Hugh Hopper, Steve Hillage, Dave Stewart ( the keyboardist ), Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Daevid Allen, Mike Ratledge, Fred Frith, and Peter Blegvad.
English Gothic architecture flourished from the 12th to the early 16th century, and famous examples include Westminster Abbey, the traditional place of coronation for the British monarch, which also has a long tradition as a venue for royal weddings ); Canterbury Cathedral, one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England ; Salisbury Cathedral, which has the tallest church spire in the UK ; and Winchester Cathedral, which contains the longest nave and overall length of any Gothic cathedral in Europe.
See prefatory notices by Sir Harris Nicolas to his Poetical Works ( new ed., 1866 ) in the Aldine Press British poets ; by Harry Kirke Swann in the volume of selections ( 1897 ) in the Canterbury Poets ; and by John Drinkwater to the edition in the " Muses ' Library.
They were also the central foundation of the family tree of the " Canterbury Scene " of British progressive rock acts, a movement that also included Caravan, Gong, Matching Mole, Hatfield and the North, and National Health, not to mention the distinguished pop music careers of founding members Robert Wyatt and Kevin Ayers and the jazz and jazz-rock explorations of saxophonist Elton Dean and bassist Hugh Hopper.

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