"this possession is located beneath his buttocks. When the friar reaches down to retrieve the item, the bedridden man farts into his hands. That night, an angel visits the friar and brings him to hell, where Satan expels hundreds of corrupt friars from his rectum. The film ends with the pilgrims arriving at the Canterbury Cathedral, and Chaucer at home writing the words ""Qui finiscono i racconti di Canterbury, narrati solo per il piacere di raccontarli. Amen,"" meaning ""Here ends the Canterbury Tales, told only for the pleasure of telling them. Amen:"" a phrase that appears nowhere in the original"
"Canterbury Tales"" to a cross section of people, all snow-sports enthusiasts but from different social backgrounds, converging on a remote back-country ski cabin in British Columbia in the 2011 novel ""The Canterbury Trail"". ""The Two Noble Kinsmen"", by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, a retelling of ""The Knight's Tale"", was first performed in 1613 or 1614 and published in 1634. In 1961, Erik Chisholm completed his opera, ""The Canterbury Tales"". The opera is in three acts: The Wyf of Bath’s Tale, The Pardoner’s Tale and The Nun’s Priest’s Tale. Nevill Coghill's modern English version formed the basis of a musical"
"Ellesmere Chaucer The Ellesmere Chaucer, or Ellesmere Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, is an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"", owned by the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California (EL 26 C 9). It is considered one of the most significant copies of the ""Tales"". Written most likely in the first or second decade of the fifteenth century, the early history of the manuscript is uncertain, but it seems to have been owned by John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford (1408–1462). The manuscript takes its popular name from the fact that it later belonged to Sir"
"1377 and gave it to his favourites, Robert de Vere and John Holland. In 1400, Henry IV lived in the castle after he deposed Richard, and he used the castle to imprison others attempting to obtain the throne. During this time, Geoffrey Chaucer, later famous for writing ""The Canterbury Tales"", oversaw renovation work on the castle in his role as Clerk of the Works at Berkhamsted Castle and other royal properties. It is unknown how much time he spent at Berkhamsted, but he knew John of Gaddesden, who lived in nearby Little Gaddesden and who was the model for the"
"the 13th or 14th century as the ""Gesta Romanorum"". Anecdotes remained popular in Europe well into the 18th century, when the fictional anecdotal letters of Sir Roger de Coverley were published. 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"". Both of these books are composed of individual short stories (which range from farce or humorous anecdotes to well-crafted literary fictions) set within a larger narrative story (a frame story), although the frame-tale device was not adopted by all writers. At"
"completed in 1340: <poem> Nou wille þet ye hou is þet þis boc is Engliss of Kent. Þis boc is vor men Vor vader and vor moder and vor oþer þet ine ne no voul . ' ase god' in his name , Þet þis boc made god him þet bread, Of angles of hevene, and þerto his , And his þet he is . Amen. </poem> The beginning of ""The Canterbury Tales"", a collection of stories in poetry and prose written in the London dialect of Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century: <poem>"
"is in the late 14th century alliterative poem ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"", which survives in only one manuscript along with other poems by the same author, the so-called Pearl Poet. This poet was a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer, writer of ""The Canterbury Tales"", although the two wrote in different parts of England. The later poem, ""The Greene Knight"", is a late medieval rhyming romance that likely predates its only surviving copy: the 17th-century Percy Folio. The other work featuring the Green Knight, the later ballad ""King Arthur and King Cornwall"", also survives only in the Percy Folio manuscript."
"Hengwrt Chaucer The Hengwrt Chaucer manuscript is an early-15th-century manuscript of the ""Canterbury Tales"", held in the National Library of Wales, in Aberystwyth. It is an important source for Chaucer's text, and was possibly written by someone with access to original authorial holograph, now lost. The ""Hengwrt Chaucer"" is part of a collection called the Peniarth Manuscripts which is included by UNESCO in its UK Memory of the World Register, a list of documentary heritage which holds cultural significance specific to the UK. It is catalogued as MS Peniarth 392D. The Hengwrt Chaucer has been in Wales for at least"
"""Tales"", and had access to draft materials. The Ellesmere manuscript is conventionally referred to as El in studies of the ""Tales"" and their textual history. A facsimile edition is available. Ellesmere Chaucer The Ellesmere Chaucer, or Ellesmere Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, is an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"", owned by the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California (EL 26 C 9). It is considered one of the most significant copies of the ""Tales"". Written most likely in the first or second decade of the fifteenth century, the early history of the manuscript is uncertain, but"
"entirely unknown. 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. The three other works found in the same manuscript as ""Pearl"" (commonly known as ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"", ""Patience"", and ""Cleanness"" or ""Purity"") are often considered to be written by the same author. However, the manuscript containing these poems was transcribed by a copyist and not by the original poet. Although nothing explicitly suggests that all four poems"
"the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey. Chaucer is best known today for ""The Canterbury Tales"", a collection of stories written in Middle English (mostly written in verse although some are in prose), that are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. Chaucer is a crucial figure in developing the legitimacy of the vernacular, Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin."
"giving variant readings. Hengwrt Chaucer The Hengwrt Chaucer manuscript is an early-15th-century manuscript of the ""Canterbury Tales"", held in the National Library of Wales, in Aberystwyth. It is an important source for Chaucer's text, and was possibly written by someone with access to original authorial holograph, now lost. The ""Hengwrt Chaucer"" is part of a collection called the Peniarth Manuscripts which is included by UNESCO in its UK Memory of the World Register, a list of documentary heritage which holds cultural significance specific to the UK. It is catalogued as MS Peniarth 392D. The Hengwrt Chaucer has been in Wales"
"of the British Museum, to which he bequeathed a portion of his valuable library. His principal classical works are: Special mention is due of his editions of Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"" (1775–1778); and of ""Poems"", supposed to have been written at Bristol by Thomas Rowley and others in the 15th century (1777–1778), with an appendix to prove that the poems were all the work of Chatterton. Tyrwhitt's bibliophile friend Thomas Crofts is credited with introducing Tyrwhitt in 1776 to George Catcott, the owner of the 'manuscripts' of the poems. Initially Tyrwhitt was convinced that they were authentic, and pressed for publication"
"The Knight's Tale ""The Knight's Tale"" () is the first tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's ""The Canterbury Tales"". The Knight is described by Chaucer in the ""General Prologue"" as the person of highest social standing amongst the pilgrims, though his manners and clothes are unpretentious. We are told that he has taken part in some fifteen crusades in many countries and also fought for one pagan leader against another. However though the list of campaigns, mentioned by Chaucer, is real, ""and though it was perhaps just possible for one man to have been in them all, [it] is probably idealized."" Chaucer's"
"Good Women"", and ""Troilus and Criseyde"". He is best known today for ""The Canterbury Tales"". His work was crucial in legitimising the literary use of the Middle English vernacular at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin. Chaucer was born in London sometime around 1343, though the precise date and location remain unknown. His father and grandfather were both London vintners, and several previous generations had been merchants in Ipswich. His family name is derived from the French ""chausseur"", meaning ""shoemaker"". In 1324, his father John Chaucer was kidnapped by an aunt in the"
"genre of literature known as chivalric literature. In the late 14th century, at broadly the same time that Geoffrey Chaucer included ""The Franklin's Tale"", itself a Breton lai, in his ""Canterbury Tales"", a poet named Thomas Chestre composed a Middle English romance based directly upon Marie de France's ""Lanval"", which, perhaps predictably, spanned much more now than a few weeks of the hero's life, a knight named ""Sir Launfal"". In 1816, the English poet Matilda Betham wrote a long poem about Marie de France in octosyllabic couplets, ""The Lay of Marie"". Marie de France Marie de France (fl. 1160 to"
"of all time and the first to show what the language was truly capable of poetically. This sentiment was universally agreed upon by later critics into the mid-15th century. Glosses included in ""The Canterbury Tales"" manuscripts of the time praised him highly for his skill with ""sentence"" and rhetoric, the two pillars by which medieval critics judged poetry. The most respected of the tales was at this time the Knight's, as it was full of both. The incompleteness of the ""Tales"" led several medieval authors to write additions and supplements to the tales to make them more complete. Some of"
"trading along coasts and rivers, as well as pilgrimages to such destinations as Jerusalem; Canterbury and Glastonbury in England; St. David's in Wales; and Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"" became popular at the end of the 14th century. The most prominent authors of Jewish secular poetry in the Middle Ages were Solomon ibn Gabirol and Yehuda Halevi, both of whom were also renowned religious poets. While it is true that women in the medieval period were never accorded full equality with men, some women were able to use their skill with the written word to gain"
"The Canterbury Tales as the place where the pilgrims water their horses on their way to Thomas Becket's shrine. In the Tudor period ""St. Thomas-à-Watering"" was also the location for public executions. In the 16th century, herbalist and botanist John Gerard wrote of the ""wild willow herb"" that 'It is found nigh the place of execution at St. Thomas a Watering; and by a style on a Thames bank near to the Devil's Neckerchief on the way to Redriffe.' During the Middle Ages, the local religious house, Bermondsey Abbey, made use of the water of the Neckinger to power a"
"the work of the same author, including an intricate elegiac poem, ""Pearl"". The English dialect of these poems from the Midlands is markedly different from that of the London-based Chaucer and, though influenced by French in the scenes at court in ""Sir Gawain"", there are in the poems also many dialect words, often of Scandinavian origin, that belonged to northwest England. Middle English lasted until the 1470s, when the Chancery Standard, a London-based form of English, became widespread and the printing press started to standardise the language. Chaucer is best known today for ""The Canterbury Tales"". This is a collection"
"to this day. King Henry II expanded the royal estate into the Royal Forest (hunting ground) of Petherton Park, which continued to exist until the 17th century. Geoffrey Chaucer (~1343-1400), author of ""The Canterbury Tales"" was appointed Deputy Forester of the Royal Forest of North Petherton towards the end of his life. The Royal Forest was probably similar in area to the Saxon Hundred of North Petherton. According to the late 13th century Hundred Rolls, King Henry II of England (d. 1189) gave William of Wrotham lands at North Petherton. Between 1513 and 1535 Sir William Courtenay (d.1535) of Powderham,"
"short stories, or novella that remained part of a European oral culture of storytelling into the late 19th century. Fairy tales, jokes, and humorous stories designed to make a point in a conversation, and the exemplum a priest would insert in a sermon belong into this tradition. Written collections of such stories circulated in a wide range of products from practical compilations of examples designed for the use of clerics to compilations of various stories such as Boccaccio's ""Decameron"" (1354) and Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"" (1386–1400). The ""Decameron"" (1354) was a compilation of one hundred novelle told by ten people—seven"
"Canterbury tale. John Bale similarly included ""Arator Narratio"" (Plowman's Tale) in his list of the ""Canterbury Tales"" in his ""Scriptorum Illustrium Maioris Brytanniae . . . Catalogus"" (Basle, 1557, 1559). Corroborating Francis Thynne, Leland's remarks on ""The Plowman's Tale"" are as follows: ""But the tale of Piers Plowman, which by the common consent of the learned is attributed to Chaucer as its true author, has been suppressed in each edition, because it vigorously inveighed against the bad morals of the priests"" (""Commentarii de Scriptoribus Britannicis"" ed. Anthony Hall. Like Bale's Chaucer, Leland's Chaucer is a reformer and follower of Wycliffe."
"in July 1349, and for a short period the seat of government was based in Kings Langley. Edward also removed his extensive collection of religious relics from the Tower of London and brought them to Kings Langley for safekeeping. The author of The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, would have visited the palace during his appointment as Clerk of the Kings Works to King Richard II between 1389 and 1391. Later King Richard II celebrated Christmas there. The Palace was damaged by a serious fire in 1431; accounts describe ""a great and disastrous fire at the manor of our lady Joan"
"which he did in 1471. On his return to England, heavy demand for his translation prompted Caxton to set up a press at Westminster in 1476, although the first book he is known to have produced was an edition of Chaucer's ""The Canterbury Tales""; he went on to publish chivalric romances, classical works, and English and Roman histories, and to edit many others. He is credited with two other firsts: he printed perhaps the earliest English translation verses of the Bible, and was the first to translate ""Aesop's Fables"" in 1484. Caxton was not an adequate translator, and under pressure"
"in limited circles somewhat longer, but it had ceased to be a living language. Official documents began to be produced regularly in English during the 15th century. Geoffrey Chaucer, who lived in the late 14th century, is the most famous writer from the Middle English period, and ""The Canterbury Tales"" is his best-known work. The English language changed enormously during the Middle English period, both in vocabulary and pronunciation, and in grammar. While Old English is a heavily inflected language (synthetic), the use of grammatical endings diminished in Middle English (analytic). Grammar distinctions were lost as many noun and adjective"
"Oxford, he always lived in his college rooms. Nevill Coghill Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer Coghill (19 April 1899 – 6 November 1980) was an English literary scholar, known especially for his modern English version of Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"". His father was Sir Egerton Coghill, 5th Baronet. Coghill was educated at Haileybury, and read English at Exeter College, Oxford. He became a fellow of the college and there is a small bust of him in the college chapel. He served in the Great War after 1917. In 1948, he was made Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College. He was Merton"
"of Lancaster. He was the nation's power broker and in his time was the richest man in the kingdom second to the king. The Savoy was the most magnificent nobleman's house in England. It was famous for its owner's magnificent collection of tapestries, jewels, and other ornaments. Geoffrey Chaucer began writing ""The Canterbury Tales"" while working at the Savoy Palace as a clerk. During the Peasants' Revolt led by Wat Tyler in 1381, the rioters, who blamed John of Gaunt for the introduction of the poll tax that had precipitated the revolt, systematically demolished the Savoy and everything in it."
"Sir Thopas Sir Thopas is one of ""The Canterbury Tales"" by Geoffrey Chaucer, published in 1387. The tale is one of two—together with The Tale of Melibee—told by the fictive Geoffrey Chaucer as he travels with the pilgrims on the journey to Canterbury Cathedral. The tale concerns the adventures of the knight ""Sir Thopas"" and his quest to win the elf-queen. The tale is one of two told by the fictive Chaucer, along with the Tale of Melibee, who figures as one of the pilgrims who are on a journey to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. The"
"following John Manly and Edith Rickert's notation. A facsimile edition of the manuscript has been published. Harley MS 7334 Harley MS. 7334, sometimes known as the Harley Manuscript, is a mediaeval manuscript of Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"" held in the Harleian Collection of the British Library. It was formerly used as a base text for modern editions of the ""Tales"", following the examples of Thomas Wright, who used it as the basis for his 1847 edition, and W. W. Skeat, who felt it gave authoritative variant readings. The Harley MS. was likely produced in a London workshop within a decade of"
"that his ""Ode to a Nightingale"" was in part inspired by the Middle English poem, or by Dryden's modernization of it. The musician and poet Sidney Lanier outdid them all when he declared ""The Floure and the Leafe"" was worth all the ""Canterbury Tales"" put together. In 1868 scenes from the poem were represented in the memorial window (destroyed in World War II) placed above Chaucer's tomb in Westminster Abbey. The same year, the scholar Henry Bradshaw gave reasons for thinking the poem to have been written too late to be Chaucer's work. The pioneering Middle English scholar Thomas Tyrwhitt"
"was taken prisoner at the Battle of Poitiers. When the Black Prince fell ill following his campaigning in France, he retired to Berkhamsted and died there in 1376. Richard II inherited Berkamsted Castle in 1377; initially the use of it was given to his favourite, Robert de Vere and, after de Vere's fall from power and exile in 1388, to John Holland. Henry IV lived in the castle after he deposed Richard in 1400, and he used the property to detain rival applicants to the throne. During this period Geoffrey Chaucer, later famous for his ""Canterbury Tales"", oversaw renovation work"
"The Monk's Tale ""The Monk's Tale"" is one of ""The Canterbury Tales"" by Geoffrey Chaucer. The Monk's tale to the other pilgrims is a collection of 17 short stories, exempla, on the theme of tragedy. The tragic endings of these historical figures are recounted: Lucifer, Adam, Samson, Hercules, Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, Zenobia, Pedro of Castile, Peter I of Cyprus, Bernabò Visconti, Ugolino of Pisa, Nero, Holofernes, Antiochus, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Croesus. Some literary critics believe that a large portion of the tale may have been written before the rest of the ""Canterbury Tales"" and that the four most"