156 relations: A Canterbury Tale, A Prairie Home Companion, Adam Pinkhurst, Against Jovinianus, Alan Plater, Angie Abdou, Augustine of Hippo, BBC, Black Death, Blood libel, Boethius, Breton lai, British Library, Caesura, Cambridge University Press, Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury Tales (musical), Carnival, Chaucer's Retraction, Confession (religion), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Court of Chancery, Courtier, Dan Simmons, Dante Alighieri, Decasyllable, Divine Comedy, Edward III of England, Ellesmere Chaucer, Emeric Pressburger, Empathy, English literature, Erik Chisholm, Estates of the realm, Eustache Deschamps, Evolution, Ezra Winter, Fabliau, Folger Shakespeare Library, Frame story, Garrison Keillor, General Prologue, Geoffrey Chaucer, Giovanni Boccaccio, Great Vowel Shift, Harley MS 7334, Harold Bloom, Helen Cooper (literary scholar), Hengwrt Chaucer, ..., Henry Dudeney, Henry II of England, Hugo Award, Hundred Years' War, Hyperion (Simmons novel), Iambic pentameter, Incunable, Indulgence, Influence of Italian humanism on Chaucer, International Phonetic Alphabet, Italy in the Middle Ages, Jerome, John Adams Building, John Bromyard, John Dryden, John Gower, John Lydgate, John of Gaunt, John Stow, John Urry (literary editor), John Wycliffe, Julian of Norwich, Kent, Latin, Lent, Library of Congress, Liminality, Lollardy, Masterpiece, Michael Powell, Middle English, Nevill Coghill, OCLC, Ovid, Oxford University Press, Parlement of Foules, Paul C. Doherty, Pearl Poet, Peasants' Revolt, Petrarch, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Piers Plowman, Pilgrim, Pilgrimage, Poet laureate, Prick of Conscience, Prologue and Tale of Beryn, Prose, Relativism, Relic, Rhyme royal, Richard Dawkins, Richard II of England, Riding rhyme, Scrivener, Siege of Thebes (poem), Sir Thopas, The Ancestor's Tale, The Book of the Duchess, The Canon's Yeoman's Tale, The Canterbury Puzzles, The Canterbury Tales (film), The Canterbury Tales (TV series), The Clerk's Tale, The Consolation of Philosophy, The Cook's Tale, The Decameron, The Floure and the Leafe, The Franklin's Tale, The Friar's Tale, The House of Fame, The Knight's Tale, The Man of Law's Tale, The Manciple's Tale, The Merchant's Tale, The Miller's Tale, The Monk's Tale, The Nun's Priest's Tale, The Pardoner's Tale, The Parson's Tale, The Physician's Tale, The Plowman's Tale, The Prioress's Tale, The Reeve's Tale, The Second Nun's Tale, The Shipman's Tale, The Squire's Tale, The Summoner's Tale, The Tabard, The Tale of Gamelyn, The Tale of Melibee, The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Wife of Bath's Tale, Thomas Becket, Thomas Hoccleve, Trinity Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, University of Maine, Vernacular, Verse (poetry), Virgil, Walter William Skeat, Western Schism, William Caxton, William Langland, Woodcut. Expand index (106 more) »
A Canterbury Tale
A Canterbury Tale is a 1944 British film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger starring Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price and Sgt. John Sweet; Esmond Knight provided narration and played several small roles.
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A Prairie Home Companion
A Prairie Home Companion is a weekly radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor that aired live from 1974 to 2016.
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Adam Pinkhurst
Adam Pinkhurst was a fourteenth-century English scribe.
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Against Jovinianus
Against Jovinianus is a two-volume treatise by the Church Father Saint Jerome.
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Alan Plater
Alan Frederick Plater CBE FRSL (15 April 1935 – 25 June 2010) was an English playwright and screenwriter, who worked extensively in British television from the 1960s to the 2000s.
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Angie Abdou
Angie Abdou (born 11 May 1969) is a Canadian fiction writer.
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Augustine of Hippo
Saint Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was a Roman African, early Christian theologian and philosopher from Numidia whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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Black Death
The Black Death, also known as the Great Plague, the Black Plague, or simply the Plague, was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351.
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Blood libel
Blood libel (also blood accusation) is an accusationTurvey, Brent E. Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis, Academic Press, 2008, p. 3.
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Boethius
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius, commonly called Boethius (also Boetius; 477–524 AD), was a Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher of the early 6th century.
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Breton lai
A Breton lai, also known as a narrative lay or simply a lay, is a form of medieval French and English romance literature.
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British Library
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and the largest national library in the world by number of items catalogued.
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Caesura
An example of a caesura in modern western music notation. A caesura (. caesuras or caesurae; Latin for "cutting"), also written cæsura and cesura, is a break in a verse where one phrase ends and the following phrase begins.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.
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Canterbury
Canterbury is a historic English cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a local government district of Kent, England.
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Canterbury Cathedral
Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England.
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Canterbury Tales (musical)
Canterbury Tales is a musical originally presented at the Oxford Playhouse in 1964, conceived and directed by Martin Starkie and written by Nevill Coghill and Martin Starkie.
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Carnival
Carnival (see other spellings and names) is a Western Christian and Greek Orthodox festive season that occurs before the liturgical season of Lent.
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Chaucer's Retraction
Chaucer's Retraction is the final section of The Canterbury Tales.
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Confession (religion)
Confession, in many religions, is the acknowledgment of one's sins (sinfulness) or wrongs.
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Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Corpus Christi College (full name: "The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary", often shortened to "Corpus", or previously "The Body") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
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Court of Chancery
The Court of Chancery was a court of equity in England and Wales that followed a set of loose rules to avoid the slow pace of change and possible harshness (or "inequity") of the common law.
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Courtier
A courtier is a person who is often in attendance at the court of a monarch or other royal personage.
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Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer.
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Dante Alighieri
Durante degli Alighieri, commonly known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante (c. 1265 – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages.
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Decasyllable
Decasyllable (Italian: decasillabo, French: décasyllabe, Serbian: "десетерац","deseterac") is a poetic meter of ten syllables used in poetic traditions of syllabic verse.
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Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) is a long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321.
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Edward III of England
Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377) was King of England and Lord of Ireland from January 1327 until his death; he is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous and unorthodox reign of his father, Edward II.
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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).
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Emeric Pressburger
Emeric Pressburger (5 December 19025 February 1988) was a Hungarian British screenwriter, film director, and producer.
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Empathy
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another's position.
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English literature
This article is focused on English-language literature rather than the literature of England, so that it includes writers from Scotland, Wales, and the whole of Ireland, as well as literature in English from countries of the former British Empire, including the United States.
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Erik Chisholm
Erik William Chisholm (4 January 1904 – 8 June 1965) was a Scottish composer, pianist, organist and conductor sometimes known as "Scotland's forgotten composer".
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Estates of the realm
The estates of the realm, or three estates, were the broad orders of social hierarchy used in Christendom (Christian Europe) from the medieval period to early modern Europe.
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Eustache Deschamps
Eustache Deschamps (1346 — 1406 or 1407), was a French poet, byname Morel, in French "Nightshade".
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Evolution
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
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Ezra Winter
Ezra Augustus Winter (March 10, 1886 – April 6, 1949) was a prominent American muralist.
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Fabliau
A fabliau (plural fabliaux) is a comic, often anonymous tale written by jongleurs in northeast France between ca.
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Folger Shakespeare Library
The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in the United States.
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Frame story
A frame story (also known as a frame tale or frame narrative) is a literary technique that sometimes serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, whereby an introductory or main narrative is presented, at least in part, for the purpose of setting the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories.
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Garrison Keillor
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American author, storyteller, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality.
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General Prologue
The General Prologue is the first part of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.
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Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio (16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist.
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Great Vowel Shift
The Great Vowel Shift was a major series of changes in the pronunciation of the English language that took place, beginning in southern England, primarily between 1350 and the 1600s and 1700s, today influencing effectively all dialects of English.
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Harley MS 7334
Harley MS.
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Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University.
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Helen Cooper (literary scholar)
Elizabeth Helen Cooper, (born 6 February 1947), known as Helen Cooper, is a British literary scholar.
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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.
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Henry Dudeney
Henry Ernest Dudeney (10 April 1857 – 23 April 1930) was an English author and mathematician who specialised in logic puzzles and mathematical games.
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Henry II of England
Henry II (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189), also known as Henry Curtmantle (Court-manteau), Henry FitzEmpress or Henry Plantagenet, ruled as Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Nantes, King of England and Lord of Ireland; at various times, he also partially controlled Wales, Scotland and Brittany.
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Hugo Award
The Hugo Awards are a set of literary awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.
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Hundred Years' War
The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against the House of Valois, over the right to rule the Kingdom of France.
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Hyperion (Simmons novel)
Hyperion is a Hugo Award-winning 1989 science fiction novel by American writer Dan Simmons.
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Iambic pentameter
Iambic pentameter is a type of metrical line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama.
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Incunable
An incunable, or sometimes incunabulum (plural incunables or incunabula, respectively), is a book, pamphlet, or broadside printed in Europe before the year 1501.
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Indulgence
In the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, an indulgence (from *dulgeō, "persist") is "a way to reduce the amount of punishment one has to undergo for sins." It may reduce the "temporal punishment for sin" after death (as opposed to the eternal punishment merited by mortal sin), in the state or process of purification called Purgatory.
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Influence of Italian humanism on Chaucer
Contact between Geoffrey Chaucer and the Italian humanists Petrarch or Boccaccio has been proposed by scholars for centuries.
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International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet.
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Italy in the Middle Ages
The history of the Italian peninsula during the medieval period can be roughly defined as the time between the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance.
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Jerome
Jerome (Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος; c. 27 March 347 – 30 September 420) was a priest, confessor, theologian, and historian.
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John Adams Building
The John Adams Building is one of three library buildings of the Library of Congress in the United States.
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John Bromyard
John Bromyard (d. c. 1352) was an influential English Dominican friar and prolific compiler of preaching aids.
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John Dryden
John Dryden (–) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668.
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John Gower
John Gower (c. 1330 – October 1408) was an English poet, a contemporary of William Langland and the Pearl Poet, and a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer.
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John Lydgate
John Lydgate of Bury (c. 1370 – c. 1451) was a monk and poet, born in Lidgate, near Haverhill, Suffolk, England.
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John of Gaunt
John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, KG (6 March 1340 – 3 February 1399) was an English nobleman, soldier, statesman, and prince, the third of five surviving sons of King Edward III of England.
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John Stow
John Stow (also Stowe; 1524/25 – 5 April 1605) was an English historian and antiquarian.
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John Urry (literary editor)
John Urry (1666 in Dublin, Ireland – 18 March 1715 in Oxford, Great Britain) was a noted literary editor and medieval scholar of Scottish family.
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John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe (also spelled Wyclif, Wycliff, Wiclef, Wicliffe, Wickliffe; 1320s – 31 December 1384) was an English scholastic philosopher, theologian, Biblical translator, reformer, English priest, and a seminary professor at the University of Oxford.
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Julian of Norwich
Julian of Norwich (c. 8 November 1342 – c. 1416), also called Juliana of Norwich, was an English anchoress and an important Christian mystic and theologian.
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Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.
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Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Lent
Lent (Latin: Quadragesima: Fortieth) is a solemn religious observance in the Christian liturgical calendar that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends approximately six weeks later, before Easter Sunday.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.
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Liminality
In anthropology, liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning "a threshold") is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of rites, when participants no longer hold their preritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete.
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Lollardy
Lollardy (Lollardism, Lollard movement) was a pre-Protestant Christian religious movement that existed from the mid-14th century to the English Reformation.
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Masterpiece
Masterpiece, magnum opus (Latin, great work) or chef-d’œuvre (French, master of work, plural chefs-d’œuvre) in modern use is a creation that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career or to a work of outstanding creativity, skill, profundity, or workmanship.
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Michael Powell
Michael Latham Powell (30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990) was an English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger.
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Middle English
Middle English (ME) is collectively the varieties of the English language spoken after the Norman Conquest (1066) until the late 15th century; scholarly opinion varies but the Oxford English Dictionary specifies the period of 1150 to 1500.
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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.
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OCLC
OCLC, currently incorporated as OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Incorporated, is an American nonprofit cooperative organization "dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs".
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Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – 17/18 AD), known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
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Parlement of Foules
The Parlement of Foules (also known as the Parliament of Foules, Parlement of Briddes, Assembly of Fowls, Assemble of Foules, or The Parliament of Birds) is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer (1343?–1400) made up of approximately 700 lines.
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Paul C. Doherty
Paul Charles Dominic Doherty (born 21 September 1946) is an award-winning English author, educator, lecturer and historian.
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Pearl Poet
The "Pearl Poet", or the "Gawain Poet", is the name given to the author of Pearl, an alliterative poem written in 14th-century Middle English.
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Peasants' Revolt
The Peasants' Revolt, also called Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381.
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Petrarch
Francesco Petrarca (July 20, 1304 – July 18/19, 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was a scholar and poet of Renaissance Italy who was one of the earliest humanists.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini (5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual.
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Piers Plowman
Piers Plowman (written 1370–90) or Visio Willelmi de Petro Ploughman (William's Vision of Piers Plowman) is a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland.
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Pilgrim
A pilgrim (from the Latin peregrinus) is a traveler (literally one who has come from afar) who is on a journey to a holy place.
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Pilgrimage
A pilgrimage is a journey or search of moral or spiritual significance.
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Poet laureate
A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions.
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Prick of Conscience
The Prick of Conscience is a Middle English poem dating from the first half of the fourteenth century promoting penitential reflection.
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Prologue and Tale of Beryn
The Prologue and Tale of Beryn are spurious 15th century additions to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. They are both written in Middle English.
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Prose
Prose is a form of language that exhibits a natural flow of speech and grammatical structure rather than a rhythmic structure as in traditional poetry, where the common unit of verse is based on meter or rhyme.
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Relativism
Relativism is the idea that views are relative to differences in perception and consideration.
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Relic
In religion, a relic usually consists of the physical remains of a saint or the personal effects of the saint or venerated person preserved for purposes of veneration as a tangible memorial.
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Rhyme royal
Rhyme royal (or rime royal) is a rhyming stanza form that was introduced to English poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer.
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Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author.
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Richard II of England
Richard II (6 January 1367 – c. 14 February 1400), also known as Richard of Bordeaux, was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399.
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Riding rhyme
Riding rhyme is an early form of heroic verse.
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Scrivener
A scrivener (or scribe) was a person who could read and write or who wrote letters to court and legal documents.
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Siege of Thebes (poem)
Siege of Thebes is a 4716 line poem written by John Lydgate between 1420 and 1422.
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Sir Thopas
Sir Thopas is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, published in 1387.
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The Ancestor's Tale
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life is a 2004 popular science book by Richard Dawkins, with contributions from Dawkins' research assistant Yan Wong.
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The Book of the Duchess
The Book of the Duchess, also known as The Deth of Blaunche, Encyclopædia Britannica, 1910.
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The Canon's Yeoman's Tale
The Canon's Yeoman's Tale is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
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The Canterbury Puzzles
The Canterbury Puzzles and Other Curious Problems is a 1907 mathematical puzzle book by Henry Dudeney.
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The Canterbury Tales (film)
The Canterbury Tales (I racconti di Canterbury) is a 1972 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and based on the medieval narrative poem The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
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The Canterbury Tales (TV series)
The Canterbury Tales is a series of six single dramas that originally aired on BBC One in 2003.
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The Clerk's Tale
The Clerk's Tale is the first tale of Group E (Fragment IV) in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
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The Consolation of Philosophy
The Consolation of Philosophy (De consolatione philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius, written around the year 524.
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The Cook's Tale
Geoffrey Chaucer presumably never finished "The Cook's Tale" and it breaks off after 58 lines, although some scholars argue that Chaucer deliberately left the tale unfinished.
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The Decameron
The Decameron (Italian title: "Decameron" or "Decamerone"), subtitled "Prince Galehaut" (Old Prencipe Galeotto and sometimes nicknamed "Umana commedia", "Human comedy"), is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375).
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The Floure and the Leafe
The Floure and the Leafe is an anonymous Middle English allegorical poem in 595 lines of rhyme royal, written around 1470.
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The Franklin's Tale
"The Franklin's Tale" (The Frankeleyns Tale) is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
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The Friar's Tale
"The Friar's Tale" (The Freres Tale) is a story in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, told by Huberd the Friar.
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The House of Fame
The House of Fame (Hous of Fame in the original spelling) is a Middle English poem by Geoffrey Chaucer, probably written between 1379 and 1380, making it one of his earlier works.
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The Knight's Tale
"The Knight's Tale" (The Knightes Tale) is the first tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
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The Man of Law's Tale
The Man of Law's Tale is the fifth of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, written around 1387.
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The Manciple's Tale
The Manciple's Tale is part of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
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The Merchant's Tale
"The Merchant's Tale" (The Marchantes Tale) is one of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
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The Miller's Tale
"The Miller's Tale" (The Milleres Tale) is the second of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1380s–1390s), told by the drunken miller Robin to "quite" (requite) "The Knight's Tale".
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The Monk's Tale
"The Monk's Tale" is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
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The Nun's Priest's Tale
The Nun's Priest's Tale (Middle English: the Nonnes Preestes Tale of the Cok and Hen, Chauntecleer and Pertelote) is one of The Canterbury Tales by the Middle English poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
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The Pardoner's Tale
The Pardoner's Tale is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
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The Parson's Tale
The Parson's Tale seems, from the evidence of its prologue, to have been intended as the final tale of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetic cycle The Canterbury Tales.
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The Physician's Tale
The Physician's Tale is one of the Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century.
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The Plowman's Tale
There are two pseudo-Chaucerian texts called The Plowman's Tale (aka Brent's Story).
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The Prioress's Tale
The Prioress's Tale (The Prioresses Tale) follows The Shipman's Tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
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The Reeve's Tale
"The Reeve's Tale" is the third story told in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
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The Second Nun's Tale
"The Second Nun's Tale" (Middle English: Þe Seconde Nonnes Tale), originally written in late Middle English, is part of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, which was a collection of 24 stories telling of various people.
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The Shipman's Tale
The Shipman's Tale (also called The Sailor's Tale) is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
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The Squire's Tale
"The Squire's Tale" is a tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
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The Summoner's Tale
"The Summoner's Tale" is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
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The Tabard
The Tabard was a historic inn that stood on the east side of Borough High Street in Southwark.
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The Tale of Gamelyn
The Tale of Gamelyn is a romance written in c. 1350 in a dialect of Middle English, considered part of the Matter of England.
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The Tale of Melibee
The Tale of Melibee (also called The Tale of Melibeus) is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
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The Two Noble Kinsmen
The Two Noble Kinsmen is a Jacobean tragicomedy, first published in 1634 and attributed to John Fletcher and William Shakespeare.
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The Wife of Bath's Tale
The Wife of Bath's Tale (the Tale of the Wyf of Bathe) is among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
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Thomas Becket
Thomas Becket (also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London, and later Thomas à Becket; (21 December c. 1119 (or 1120) – 29 December 1170) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. He engaged in conflict with Henry II, King of England, over the rights and privileges of the Church and was murdered by followers of the king in Canterbury Cathedral. Soon after his death, he was canonised by Pope Alexander III.
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Thomas Hoccleve
Thomas Hoccleve or Occleve (c. 1368–1426) was an English poet and clerk who has been seen as a key figure in 15th-century Middle English literature.
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Trinity Tales
Trinity Tales was a 1975 British television series, consisting of six 50-minute programmes, written by Alan Plater and shown on BBC2.
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Troilus and Criseyde
Troilus and Criseyde is an epic poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war during the Siege of Troy.
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University of Maine
The University of Maine (also referred to as UMaine, Maine or UMO) is a public research university in Orono, Maine, United States.
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Vernacular
A vernacular, or vernacular language, is the language or variety of a language used in everyday life by the common people of a specific population.
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Verse (poetry)
In the countable sense, a verse is formally a single metrical line in a poetic composition.
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Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro (traditional dates October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.
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Walter William Skeat
Walter William Skeat (21 November 1835 – 6 October 1912), FBA, was the pre-eminent British philologist of his time.
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Western Schism
The Western Schism, also called Papal Schism, Great Occidental Schism and Schism of 1378, was a split within the Catholic Church lasting from 1378 to 1417 in which two, since 1410 even three, men simultaneously claimed to be the true pope.
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William Caxton
William Caxton (c. 1422 – c. 1491) was an English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer.
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William Langland
William Langland (Willielmus de Langland; 1332 – c. 1386) is the presumed author of a work of Middle English alliterative verse generally known as Piers Plowman, an allegory with a complex variety of religious themes.
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Woodcut
Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales