An exhibition exploring aspects of the medieval world largely in relation to England and especially Kent. Using material from SC&A, The Beaney and Canterbury Cathedral, the exhibition tells the story of medieval maps and mapping, pilgrimage and Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
The Gough Map in the exhibition (facsimile loaned by Jacqueline Spencer)
Late Elizabethan copy of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, from the Special Collections and Archives
Many thanks to Karen Brayshaw and her colleagues in Special Collections and Archives, who with several MEMS postgraduates: Angela Broomfield, Tressa Biener, Elijah Vote and Tris Lopez-Huicochea (utilising skills developed in the MEMS MA) worked with Ryan Perry and Sheila Sweetinburgh on the exhibition, as well as Torn Brown (Pilgrimage Officer at Canterbury Cathedral). If you would like to visit the exhibition, please go to the Templeman Library Reception during normal working hours and the staff will be happy to let you into the library and guide you to Special Collections.