1. The Canterbury Tales By Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) Middle English Major Literary Work

2. The Canterbury Tales

3. Symbols Springtime

4. Symbols Clothing

5. Symbols Physiognomy

6. The Tale The Narrator

7. The Tale The General Prologue

8. The Tale The Knight

9. The Tale The Wife of Bath

10. The Tale The Squire

11. The Tale The Pardoner

12. The Tale The Prioress

13. Themes The Pervasiveness of Courtly Love

14. Themes The Importance of Company

15. Themes The Corruption of the Church

16. Technique Romantic Adventure: Like the knight’s and the squire’s tale Fabliaux: a short metrical tale, usually humorous. Saint’s Biographies Animal Fables: short tales to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters. Religious Allegories: representations of abstract or spiritual meanings through concrete or material forms. Sermon

17. Tone Pious and moralistic tales (earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations) Indecent and vulgar sexual farces (ridiculous situations in which everything goes wrong) Fabliaux: A younger wife has an affair with a man with a flexible social status (The Miller’s Tale)

18. Norman Wife King Ethelred (1002) Before The Norman Conquest Edward 1066

19. William The Norman Conquest EdwardGodwin Harold 1066

20. Political aspects in ME period Feudalism = unfair & out of date laws and customs Lords,Vassals,Fiefs

21. William the Conqueror (King) Lord John (King’s vassal) Knights (Lord’s vassals) 20 manors as fief One manor

22. Political aspects in ME period The Hundred Years War England VS. France Edward III 1337 1453 116 years

23. Political aspects in ME period Edwardian war Carolinian war Lancastrian war The Hundred Years War Joan of Arc (1429)

24. Political aspects in ME period The Black Death

25. Political aspects in ME period The Peasant Revolt

26. Political aspects in ME period The Crusades

27. Political aspects in ME period Magna Carta

28. Political aspects in ME period Restoration and Reformation

29. Political aspects in ME period Restoration and Reformation

30. The Main Influences in the ME Period French First Stage (before 1250): Only 900 words French Nobility: baron, noble, servant Literature: story, rhyme The church

31. The Main Influences in the ME Period French Second Stage (after 1250): Upper Class started to use English Government: crown, empire, traitor, treason Rank: prince, princess Feudal System: vassal, manor Church: religion, sermon, baptism Rank: clerk, friar, hermit Courts: crime, sue, accuse, innocent, just

32. The Main Influences in the ME Period French Second Stage (after 1250): Army: army, enemy, battle, combat Social Life: attire, cape, gown, Colors: scarlet, blue, brown Stones: pearl, sapphire, diamonds English table: dinner, supper, salmon sugar, biscuit Domestic Life: chair, couch Art: tragedy, romance, poet

33. The Main Influences in the ME Period Old English expanding vocabulary by using prefixes and suffixes prefix for-: forhang, forcover, forbar forget, forswear prefix with-: withdraw suffix –red: hatred, kindred suffix –dom: kingdom and freedom.