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'The hooly blisful martir for to seke' Manuscripts with Chaucer’s pilgrims

'The hooly blisful martir for to seke' Manuscripts with Chaucer’s pilgrims

The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) · Oxford University

April 3, 20241h 0m

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Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales tell the story of pilgrims 'from every shires ende / Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende’. Experience these journeys, both real and imagined, through medieval manuscripts from the Bodleian collection live under the visualiser. Dr Alison Ray, archivist at St Peter’s College, and Dr Andrew Dunning, RW Hunt Curator of Medieval Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries, will explore the new iconography that developed after Thomas Becket’s murder, the impact of his death on Oxford’s religious houses and how Canterbury became a significant pilgrimage destination.