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Geoffrey Chaucer: The Knight’s Tale and the Miller’s Tale

May 2 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

The Miller’s Tale is one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. These tales were supposedly stories that a group of pilgrims told each other as they were on their way from London to Canterbury Cathedral, to visit the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket (also known as Thomas à Becket). Nevertheless, some of the tales told by that these pious people (including the Miller) were funny and quite bawdy. It

The text, with interlinear translation:

1.2 The Knight’s Tale | Harvard’s Geoffrey Chaucer Website

1.3 The Miller’s Prologue and Tale | Harvard’s Geoffrey Chaucer Website

Note that Terry Jones of Monty Python fame had a particular interest in Chaucer:

The Medieval Python: The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones | Springer Nature Link

He wrote a book about the Knight’s Tale: Chaucer’s knight : the portrait of a medieval mercenary : Jones, Terry : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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  • Laurie Thomas
  • Cindy Smith