canterbury

It's the Canterbury Tales in space, but the thing they're pilgrimaging towards is a nightmarish god of death.

Go read a copy of The Canterbury Tales in it's original english and tell if it follows those rules.

The following sounds strange to me: Shoot, there aren’t any open pubs in Canterbury at this hour.

As a counterpoint, how many people can actually read Chauncer's Canterbury Tales in its original form, or Beowulf for that matter?

I listened to an interview with our last Archbishop of Canterbury a little while ago, Dr Rowan Williams.

Be careful, this is how the Archbishop of Canterbury got picked in 1990.

We're in Canterbury and it's very much the same situation here.

The narrative structure is apparently based on the Canterbury Tales and so each chapter is fairly self contained with an overarching plot tying the characters together.

Someone (Timothy Leary?) said that the best way to do LSD would be in a sunny English meadow with the Archbishop of Canterbury as your companion.

I was wondering if he was a New Zealander, in Canterbury we have a very characterful foehn wind we call the nor'wester.

Shakespeare is difficult (much less so when seen performed, I should emphasize again), but not incomprehensible like Beowulf or even The Canterbury Tales.

> [p279] The report had been brought to the city of Canterbury by pilgrims, peregrini, arriving from the North, obviously to worship at the shrine of St.

From "Canterbury Tales" we get an idea that people from all walks of life went on pilgrimages.

With others I've read (Canterbury Tales, Decameron, 1001 Nights) it was mainly the wow-this-is-pretty-different factor keeping me reading.

The University I'm at (University of Canterbury, Christchurch) is switching from Java to Python for 2010.

George Carey became the designated Archbishop of Canterbury.