Helen Carr

Snapshots of the Middle Ages in the Canterbury pilgrims

Chaucer’s motley crew help to encapsulate the richness and diversity of the late-medieval world and its growing literacy, says Ian Mortimer

The Canterbury Pilgrims, in an English medieval illuminated manuscript. [Alamy]
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  • Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter

    Ian Mortimer

    The Bodley Head, pp. 320, £22

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