This great Roman thoroughfare was the path of the medieval pilgrims described in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Evoking memories of Shakespeare and Dickens, the camera follows the road from St Paul’s Cathedral in London, through towns and villages and the Kentish orchards and hopfields to Canterbury Cathedral which St Augustine made the centre of Christianity in England nearly 1400 years ago.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
322724
Language
English
Subject categories
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Cathedrals - Great Britain
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Great Britain - Description and travel
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Pilgrims and pilgrimages
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Travel
Crafts & Visual Arts → Cathedrals - Great Britain
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Cathedrals - Great Britain
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Christianity - Early church
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Philosophy and religion
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Pilgrims and pilgrimages
History → Canterbury (England) - Church history
History → Cathedrals - Great Britain
History → Christianity - Early church
History → Great Britain - History
History → Pilgrims and pilgrimages
Literature → Chaucer, Geoffrey, d.1400
Literature → English literature - History and criticism
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)