Kings, clerics, and poets have made Canterbury famous. Four of King Henry II’s knights murdered Thomas Becket here, after interpreting Henry’s complaints about Becket as an order to kill him. Geoffrey Chaucer immortalized medieval pilgrimages to the city in The Canterbury Tales: “And specially from every shires ende/Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende,” Chaucer wrote of the pilgrims in the general prologue to the tales. The stories of Becket and Chaucer still echo through Canterbury  more...