Chaucer's pilgrims

Meet the most famous characters of the English Middle Ages, Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrims from 'The Canterbury Tales'. All the original woodcuts depicting them from the 1400s and 1500s are here reprinted, showing us how they would have appeared if we had seen them riding past. Chaucer's text describing each one is given in the original Middle English as well as in a new modern translation, making it easy to read the text in whichever version one prefers.