* 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.

* The Canterbury Tales, a 14th century collection of stories by Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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.

* Austin is a contracted form of Augustine of Hippo and Augustine of Canterbury.

The Anglican Communion is an international association of national and regional Anglican churches ( and a few other episcopal churches ) in full communion with the Church of England ( which is regarded as the mother church of the worldwide communion ) and specifically with its principal primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, religious head of the Church of England, has no formal authority outside that jurisdiction, but is recognised as symbolic head of the worldwide communion.

There is an Anglican Communion Office in London, under the aegis of the Archbishop of Canterbury, but it only serves a supporting and organisational role.

It is held roughly every ten years and invitation is by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The body has a permanent secretariat, the Anglican Communion Office, of which the Archbishop of Canterbury is president.

Since membership is based on a province's communion with Canterbury, expulsion would require the Archbishop of Canterbury's refusal to be in communion with the affected jurisdiction ( s ).

The first undoubted instance is the bull by which Alexander II in 1063 granted the use of the mitre to Egelsinus, abbot of the monastery of St Augustine at Canterbury.

Additionally, at the enthronement of the Archbishop of Canterbury, there is a threefold enthronement, once in the throne the chancel as the diocesan bishop of Canterbury, once in the Chair of St. Augustine as the Primate of All England, and then once in the chapter-house as Titular Abbot of Canterbury.

And a solemn diploma from Christ Church, Canterbury dated 873 is so poorly constructed and written that historian Nicholas Brooks posited a scribe who was either so blind he could not read what he wrote or who knew little or no Latin.

" It is clear ," Brooks concludes, " that the metropolitan church Canterbury must have been quite unable to provide any effective training in the scriptures or in Christian worship.

After the 1174 fire in Canterbury Cathedral, Ælfheah's remains together with those of Dunstan were placed around the high altar, at which Thomas Becket is said to have commended his life into Ælfheah's care shortly before his martyrdom during the Becket controversy.

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

He is the 104th in a line which goes back more than 1400 years to St Augustine of Canterbury, the " Apostle to the English ", in the year 597.

# He is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury, which covers the east parts of the County of Kent.

# He is the metropolitan archbishop of the Province of Canterbury, which covers the southern two-thirds of England.

As holder of one of the " five great sees " ( the others being York, London, Durham and Winchester ), the Archbishop of Canterbury is ex officio one of the Lords Spiritual of the House of Lords.

The current archbishop, the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Rowan Douglas Williams, is the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury.

Catalogued as Cambridge Manuscript 286, it has been positively dated to 6th century Italy and this bound book, the St Augustine Gospels, is still used during the swearing-in ceremony of new archbishops of Canterbury.