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The trinity chapel flooring of Canterbury cathedral: symbols of the way to heavenly Jerusalem
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Alterity Remixed: Poetic Hospitality in Patience Agbabi’s Telling Tales
Published 2021-08-01“…A rewriting of Geoffey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the work of the British-Nigerian author addresses alterity through the representation of a heterogeneous group of present-day pilgrims interacting with one another as they are travelling on a bus from Tabard Inn to Canterbury Cathedral. The essay investigates how Agbabi’s poems rewrite Chaucer’s work from a twenty-first century perspective, and deal with alterity in the form of an unfinished dialogue with the medieval text and in ways which encompass not only moral, ethical or social questions, but also formal and generic issues. …”
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The Black Prince, the Trinity, and the Art of Commemoration
Published 2022-08-01“…As well as commissioning Trinitarian images in his lifetime, the art and material objects made to memorialise the Black Prince after his death, notably the tester above his tomb in Canterbury Cathedral and an illumination in a manuscript copy of a poem celebrating his life and military victories, continued to emphasise his connection to the Trinity. …”
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Pagans, Tartars, Moslems, and Jews in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
Published 2002-07-01“…It is a collection of 24 tales told by pilgrims as they make their way to Canterbury cathedral. Chaucer frames the tales with a prologue and dialogue between the tales. …”
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Commemorating the Russian conquest of Central Asia
Published 2023“…Few places feel more utterly English, more serenely metropolitan, than the nave of Canterbury Cathedral. The key historical events associated with it, notably the martyrdom of St Thomas a’Becket, are often violent and highly political, but at first glance wholly domestic. …”
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Dating Nathan: The Oldest Stained Glass Window in England?
Published 2021-06-01“…</i> 1170; however, art-historical evaluation by Caviness (1987) argued that four figures from the “Ancestors series” of Canterbury Cathedral, usually dated to the late 12th and early 13th century, in fact date earlier (<i>c.…”
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