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Mentioned when discussing the history of Ypres as a medieval cloth town - 'It's mentioned in the Canterbury Tales, Tom'

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Referenced when discussing indulgences and the Pardoner character, described as 'the most loathsome figure in the Canterbury Tales,' noting that Chaucer could criticize church practices without being condemned as a heretic.

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Briefly mentioned as evidence that fun was part of medieval pilgrimages, in discussion of whether pilgrimages could be considered early forms of holidays

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Tom mentions reading Chaucer during lockdown, specifically discussing 'the knight's tale' and 'the wife of Bath's tale' in relation to medieval attitudes toward rape and chivalry

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The main subject of the episode, discussed extensively as a major work of English literature and a window into medieval England

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Referenced alongside Arabian Nights as a comparison to the storytelling framework in Sade's novel

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Referenced when discussing pilgrimages as a Catholic tradition - 'as anyone who's read Canterbury Tales will know'

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Tom discusses reading Canterbury Tales during the pandemic lockdown, describing how Chaucer's depiction of pilgrims meeting in a Southwark pub resonated with him during COVID restrictions. He connects Chaucer's writing about plague-era London to his own pandemic experience.

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Tom discusses this poem extensively as the first English literary work to mention Valentine's Day in connection with romance - 'the first kind of mention that we get in English poetry is in a poem by Chaucer called The Parliament of Fowls'