Geoffery Chaucer's exact birth date is unknown. How ever it is estimated that his birth-date runs between 1342 and 1345, and his death in the late fourteenth century, early fifteenth century. The following is history during his time which most likely influenced his writing and thoughts.
During the time in which he wrote The Cantebury Tales, pilgrimages were normal ecspecialy with very religious people. His book was about a pilgrimage to Cantebry in which multiple characters wold tell a story and interact. The pilgrimage was second of importance to the medieval church, the first being the medieval church itself. The main purpose of the pilgrimage was to bring the participants closer to important religious sites, like cathedrals, Jerusalem. They would also go to see relics. Its like people going to see the Grand Canyon today. .
All the pilgrims had different reasons for going how ever. Some went to pray, some for personal reasons, some to pray for ill. Others would go to show devotion to their religion by sacrificing time and energy, others went for for pure recreation and socialism. .
The church in Chaucer's time was as important as life itself to a lot. The Catholic church owned extraordinary amounts of land, in general they were very powerful and wealthy. This power let underlings of the church abuse its power and holy stance to play on fears of the common people. This is clearly seen in the Pardoners tale.
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The economic system of England was that of the feudalism. Feudalism is a system that works like this: The nobles owned the farm land they "rented" the land out to the surfs and peasants. The surfs and Peasants would farm and take care of the land and animals. They would give the farmed crops to the nobleman who gave them their profit and took their profit to live on. The nobleman also had the job of protection from enemies. In general the surfs were happy and content. However one time a revolt in England in 1381 led by Wat Tyler occurred.
Family History A. ... Koyle Geoffrey Chaucer: Family History Geoffrey Chaucer was the chief English poet of the medieval period, and one of the truly great figures in English literature. ... Many of the king's friends were killed, but Parris 4 Chaucer fled in time. ... They are also applicable to his life and history. ... Chaucer was not only an artist, but a critical piece of our vast history....
Chaucer's first audience may have been to a select few. ... Chaucer's life was not well recorded. ... And they are on a pilgrimage, which is very common in that day and time. They also told there stories verbally which was more common than reading in that time. ... This is because he is one of the most respected poets in history. ...
There are 29 pilgrims, Pilgrim Chaucer and the Host. ... Chaucer creates a diverse collection of characters. ... The three class stations in Chaucer's time were the clergy, the nobility and everybody else not in the first 2 groups. ... She's had five husbands "Housbondes at chirche dore I have had five" (line 6 The Wife of Bath's) later, in her Prologue to the tale she tells, she gives the histories of all five-not to mention other company in youth. ... Restrictions on women were clear in Chaucer's day. ...
It does not include the etymology and history of the change of the words, but it does include the definition, based on Chaucer's Middle English Glossary. Instances of such words include "eek " (Chaucer 5), "corages " (Chaucer 11), "bord bigonne " (Chaucer 52), sovereyn prys " (Chaucer 67) "burgeys " (Chaucer 376), and "woot " (Chaucer 391). ... Changes in the language have occurred so much across the scope of phonetics, morphology, and syntax that people in Chaucer's time would not recognize the language used today and vice versa (English). ... By that time, approximately 10,000 word...
Chaucer satirizes the Medieval Church. ... He has no time to study the book of Saint Benedict who calls for monks to be obedient and improvised to God. ... He spent time seducing woman and promised women husbands in return for sexual favors. ... "He could read a lesson or a history beautifully,/but best of all he sang an offertory" (Chaucer 711-712). ... Chaucer's creation of his critique of the Medieval Church came at a time when it was necessary. ...
Throughout the Wife of Bath's Tale and Prologue we as readers acknowledge the fact that this character Chaucer has created is not like the average woman of her time. ... For almost all of history they were considered secondary to men in marriage and often regarded as merely possessions, therefore The Wife of Bath is clearly an outcast of her time. ... By introducing us to this particular character, Chaucer is opposing the attitudes to women at the time. ... Again, Chaucer is demonstrating the distinct difference between her and the women of her time. ... Chaucer established the English l...
Wife of Bath as a Feminist Hero Throughout the history of the world women have been portrayed as being a sort of ally with the devil. ... Furthermore, by giving these women some stronger, domineering and "masculine" features Chaucer is terrifically satirizing the gender roles and stereotypes of the time. ... Chaucer does it through the Wife of Bath as a medium to reach the hopelessly ignorant women of the time should they hear of the tale. ... Chaucer creates a tremendous example of all the things women desired at the time that men would not allow them with Dame Alice. ... All of the...
Through his literature Geoffrey Chaucer examines and points out the downfalls and/or shortcomings of monks. ... The examination in which Chaucer refers is based on the original ideas of "what a monk should be," verse the reality of "what a monk was" during his time. To help establish this comparison it is helpful to learn the history of this vocation, and the basis of becoming and being a monk because there are many differences between monks of today's age, and the monks of the medieval ages. ... The Monks hunt mentioned in the "General Prologue" is lecherous and it brings in another ...