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During the Middle Ages it was custom for many Christians to go on pilgrimages to perform what they believed was God's work. Canterbury was one of many sites that the pilgrim would go to. Geoffrey Chaucer centers his book The Canterbury Tales around the pilgrims on their way to thank St. Thomas of Canterbury for his help in keeping them alive. The pilgrims met at an inn and it is here that the Host proposes that each pilgri ....
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.... much of the jealousy and discord that arose between the pilgrims of different classes. "In the Middle Ages, each person was classified according to his or her place on the social scale depending on birth or profession. People believed that this setup was established by god and therefore was never changed. (Barrons) It is through the tales told by the Knight, the Wife of Bath, and the Pardoner that a reader can develop a strong understanding of the more importa ....
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