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The Canterbury Tales are a series of stories written by the late, great English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. The tales are about a group of twenty-nine pilgrims who set off on a pilgrimage to a cathedral in Canterbury, England, about five miles south of London. The c ....

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.... of medieval society ; the church people, the royalty court people, and the common people. The characters are from the different class structures of feudalism, (a knight, a squire, a reeve) and open classes which emerge in city scenes such as a merchant and an innkeeper. The church class was a nun, a friar, and a pardoner. Chaucer used very keen detail to make the characters seem lifelike and almost modern in their personality traits. ....