Medieval Times

Feudalism was a set of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries.

Feudalism:

 Barons rank below  viscounts, and form the lowest rank in the nobility.

Baron:

The manor:A manor is an

estate in land to which is incident the right to hold a court named court baron, that is to say a manorial court.

The peasants:A peasant is an

agricultural worker who generally works land owned or rented by/from a noble, but is classified socioeconomically above a squire with regards to the era.

The knihgt:A knight was a

member of a class of lower nobility in the High Middle Ages.

They were seen as the perfect romantic gentlemen.

The High Middle Ages saw an explosion in population. This population flowed into towns.

The town

A guild was an association of craftsmen in a particular trade. The earliest types of guild were formed as confraternities of workers.

The guilds:

A monastery was a place of pilgrimage for many people.

A pilgrim is a traveller who takes a journey to a Holy Place.

Monasteries and pilgrims:

At the beginning of the middle ages, medicine started to develop.

During the 14th and 15th century, with the appearance of Black death, a lot of people stop believing in medicine. They thought it was a God’s punishment.

Medicine:

The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history. Thought to have started in China, it travelled along the Silk Road and reached Europe by 1346.

More than 1/3 of the European population died because of the Black Death.

Black Death:

The plot is about a group of pilgrims on a journey to Canterbury. Each one tells a different story.

Most of the tales are written in verse, but some of them are in prose.

Chaucer himself is one of the characters in the book.

The Canterbury Tales

Influence:  Structurally, the collection resembles The Decameron of Boccaccio, which Chaucer may have come across during his first diplomatic mission to Italy in 1372.

The Canterbury Tales has the same structure as the Decameron.

There are two different types of background:The meeting: When people chat.

The stories: Each person tells a different story on the way to thecathedral and on the way back

Structure: