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The document provides information about the Middle Ages in England from 1066 to 1500 CE. It discusses key events like the Norman Conquest and the Black Death plague. It also describes medieval literature including Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Arthurian legends by Sir Thomas Malory. The document specifically examines Chaucer's life and work, noting that he was the first to write humor in English during the Middle Ages and that his Canterbury Tales includes stories told by a variety of pilgrims on their journey.
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The Medieval Society, Geoffrey Chaucer and his Canterbury Tales
The Medieval Society, Geoffrey Chaucer and his Canterbury Tales
Timeline and Characteristics of British Literature
Timeline and Characteristics of British Literature
Middle ages 2 with narration
- 1. Middle Ages 1066 -1500
- 2. Medieval Times • Middle Ages • Norman Conquest • Fall of Feudalism • Black Death • Rising Working Class
- 3. Medieval Literature • Middle English • Chaucer – Canterbury Tales • Malory – Arthurian Legend • Guinevere * Lancelot • Arthur * Mordrid • Merlin * Morgause • Uther * Galihad
- 4. Interactive Timeline • http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/tim elines/british/index_embed.shtml
- 5. • Chaucer – Father of English Poetry – From Aristocratic Family – Know more of Chaucer than Shakespeare – Father – wealthy • army • royal employment – met a variety of people – Write Cant Tales after retiring from service – Wrote in English (not Latin) – huge risk • Paid off – Cant Tales was widely read • Thus the title (Father of English Poetry)
- 6. • Canterbury Tales – 2 tales going, 2 on return – 30 pilgrims – incomplete – First writer of humor in middle ages – bawdy, grotesque – Frame Story – 3 groups represented (feudal, church, working) – "estates satire," a collection of stereotypes about people based on what occupation they had or what social class they belonged to (those who fight, those who pray, those who labor). – "anticlericalism," a tradition that got its start in reaction to a lot of abuses by clergy in the medieval church, but which basically became a collection of stereotypes about friars, monks, nuns, priests, and the like. – Each tale = different genre
- 7. • Thomas a Beckett • Bishop of Canterbury • Archbishop – (thanks to Henry II) • Beckett backs the church • Murder in the cathedral