Geoffrey Chaucer

Chaucer times

Context

Chaucer's audience

Authority

Pilgrimage

London 1343-1400

Society Structure

The CanterburyTales were transmitted orally to civil servants and scholars since printing with movable types had not been invented yet.

Chaucer is considered the father of the English poetry

The Roman Catholic church was the only authority in Europe

Chaucer made a pilmgrimage to Canterbury Church

A new class emerged: the middle class

Chaucer was political and Socially engaged with his times

Canterbury Tales

Chaucer: Father of English poetry

Tales

Piligrims' route

He was the one no the first to write poems in English but he brought English poetry to the level of France and Italy , which were dominant in Europe-

Collection of 24 tales written in verse (15th century)

Santiago de Compostela, Rome, Boulogne,and Cologne

Page of the Royal Court, Customs Official, Diplomat, Judge, Member of Parliament and Soldier

Chaucer's influences

Tabard Inn

29 Pilgrims

Pilgrimage

Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio

One of the places pilgrims went in Chaucer's tales that was rebuilt and can still be visited in London

These pilgrims represented the nobles, the clergy and the common people.

the tales are told by spiligrims on their wau from London to Canterbury

What you need to know about the book

the cast has in common

Middle English

24 stories

The prize

Characters

which is entirely different from the language spoken today,used between the 12th and 15th Century, evolved from Old English

Adress to the common people, the stories are told by Chaucer's spirited characters

The host of Tabard Inn proposed a competition: the best story told will be treated with a dinner

Medieval figures such as a knight, a clerk, a nun and the Reeve, among others.

A pilgrimage to Canterbury to visit the shrine of St.Thomas Becket, a martyr archbishop who was murdered in his own cathedral