Born in 1340-43, in the reign of Edward the III, when the 100 years war begins, probably in London. Important middle class family in constant touch with aristocracy. Only son of John Chaucer, rich wine merchant. Access to education (latin, french, important for...
Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (encompassing the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. AD 500 to the beginning of the Florentine...
The present unit, Unit 43, aims to provide a detailed account of the relevance of orality in medieval literature so as to link this oral tradition with the two highest literary productions in Middle English, that is, the Arthurian legend and Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury...