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2 days ago · Having conceived the idea of portraying the characters in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Blake approached the dealer Robert Cromek, with a view to marketing an engraving. Knowing Blake was too eccentric to produce a popular work, Cromek promptly commissioned Blake's friend Thomas Stothard to execute the concept.
3 days ago · Orefield Middle School seventh and eighth grade students will perform “The Canterbury Tales” Nov. 2-4 in the school auditorium. The play follows pilgrims traveling from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of St. Thomas Becket at the Canterbury Cathedral.
2 days ago · The Brothers Grimm (German: die Brüder Grimm or die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were German academics who together collected and published folklore. The brothers are among the best-known storytellers of folktales, popularizing stories such as "Cinderella" (" Aschenputtel "), "The Frog Prince" (" Der ...
2 days ago · You can’t teach Beowulf without talking about the Anglo-Saxons and Sutton Hoo and Vikings and all of that stuff. I’m a huge believer in that. I’m a huge believer in that fun stuff. You can’t teach Canterbury Tales without learning about Thomas Beckett and Henry II and, everything that happened there to make Canterbury, a pilgrimage site.
1 day ago · Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
1 day ago · In fact, Geoffrey Chaucer connects Ibn al-Haytham, Witelo, and Aristotle in one of the great works of English literature The Canterbury Tales written around 1387–1400 in the lines: They spoke of Alhazen and Vitello. And Aristotle, who wrote, in their lives, On mirrors strange and on perspectives, As all they know who've read their published word.
3 days ago · Perhaps most famous for being the hallowed site of St. Thomas Becket’s martyrdom in the 12th century and the focus of countless pilgrims, including Geoffrey Chaucer, author of the famous Canterbury Tales, the cathedral’s vaulted Romanesque ceiling lifts your eyes and spirits to the heavens just as its architects had intended.
