Over 500 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer wrote, "The Canterbury Tales", a story of a group of people making a religious pilgrimage to Canterbury, the death place of Thomas `a Becket in 1170, and the stories that the pilgrims tell along the way. In this story, there are a handful of people that retain honorable traits (Virtues), those whose aspects were well respected at the time in which the story is set. Opposite the honorable individuals are the …showed first 75 words of 452 total…

…showed last 75 words of 452 total…pay a visit to one of his sick or troubled parishioners. The perfect man in the age of Chaucer is on that has characteristics that match that of the seven cardinal virtues as believed by many of the faithful in medieval times. It is, then, with the Justice and Fortitude of the Knight and the charity and faith of the Cleric and Parson that the idea of the perfect or virtuous man can be evidenced.