* Absalom is the name of a comedic character in " The Miller's Tale " in the Canterbury Tales.

* 1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II.

* The yeoman in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is described as wearing a " baldrick of bright green.

The techniques and sometimes the names have been successfully applied in other disciplines: for example, to determine the relationships between the surviving manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales, or also between 53 manuscripts of the Sanskrit Carakasaṃhitā Vimānasthāna.

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.

Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales are written in rhyming couplets.

A woodcut from William Caxton | William Caxton's second edition of the Canterbury Tales printed in 1483.

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century.

After a long list of works written earlier in his career, including Troilus and Criseyde, House of Fame, and Parliament of Fowls, the Canterbury Tales was Chaucer's magnum opus.

The question of whether The Canterbury Tales is finished has not yet been answered.

Also, while Chaucer clearly states the addressees of many of his poems ( the Book of the Duchess is believed to have been written for John of Gaunt on the occasion of his wife's death in 1368 ), the intended audience of The Canterbury Tales is more difficult to determine.

The question of whether The Canterbury Tales is finished has not yet been answered.

In " The Knight's Tale " in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Emily prays to Diana to be spared from marriage to either Palamon or Arcite.

In 1373 Geoffrey Chaucer visited and among the pilgrims in his Canterbury Tales

This novel deals with a space war, and is inspired in its structure by Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

* The basic structure of Hyperion is taken from the Middle-English cycle of stories The Canterbury Tales.

It appears in several of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Use of the heroic couplet was first pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales.

The looser type of couplet, with occasional enjambment, was one of the standard verse forms in medieval narrative poetry, largely because of the influence of the Canterbury Tales.

More recently, thinkers have struggled to find a definition that could encompass formal differences as great as those between Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Matsuo Bashō's Oku no Hosomichi, as well as differences in context spanning Tanakh religious poetry, love poetry, and rap.

Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales recounts the tales told by pilgrims on their way to Canterbury and the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket.

Inns and taverns feature throughout English literature and poetry, from The Tabard Inn in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales onwards.

In Europe, the oral story-telling tradition began to develop into written stories in the early 14th century, most notably with Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron.

* Friday has been considered an unlucky day at least since the 14th century's The Canterbury Tales, and many other professions have regarded Friday as an unlucky day to undertake journeys or begin new projects.

The 14th abbot, he was appointed by the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Lanfranc.

Examples of sexual innuendo and double-entendre occur in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales ( 14th century ), in which the Wife of Bath's Tale is laden with double entendres.

Hazard is an Old English game played with two dice ; it was mentioned in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in the 14th century.

14th Century Archbishop of Canterbury, Simon Sudbury was born in the town as was, more recently, artist Maggi Hambling and professional footballer Stuart Slater.

* Chaucer: " The Canterbury Tales " ( 14th century )

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.

It was in 1200 that the church court records of the archdiocese of Canterbury began to be recorded and kept, although after Walter's death in 1205 the records become sparse until the 14th century.

Although the term scolae grammaticales was not widely used until the 14th century, the earliest such schools appeared from the sixth century, e. g. the King's School, Canterbury ( founded 597 ) and the King's School, Rochester ( 604 ).

Metafiction is primarily associated with Modernist literature and Postmodernist literature, but is found at least as early as Homer's Odyssey and Chaucer's 14th century Canterbury Tales.

In the 13th and 14th centuries some pilgrims to Canterbury journeyed via Billericay.

* Geoffrey Chaucer-The Canterbury Tales ( late 14th century )

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.

Individual endorsers belonging to the Consistent Life organization include Father Daniel Berrigan, Sister Joan Chittister, theologian Harvey Cox, Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff, Father Theodore Hesburgh, actress Patricia Heaton, L ' Arche founder Jean Vanier, activist Jim Wallis, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Nobel Peace Prize laureates Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.

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.

By the end of the 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer ( 1342 – 1400 ) was mentioning an English apothecary in the Canterbury Tales, specifically " The Nun's Priest's Tale " as Pertelote speaks to Chauntecleer ( lines 181 – 184 ):

In 2004, Professor Linne Mooney identified the scrivener who worked on the Ellesmere Chaucer and Hengwrt Chaucer, two manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales by the 14th century poet Geoffrey Chaucer as an Adam Pinkhurst.

The Physician's Tale is one of the Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century.

The best collection on display is at the Museum of Canterbury, where ten 13th and 14th century mazers are shown.

* William Ellis ( 14th century MP ), in 1388, Member of Parliament for Canterbury

It reflects on the theme of clerical corruption, a common one within The Canterbury Tales and within the wider 14th century world as seen by the lollard movement.