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1. Jill Mann, in one of the best studies we have of The General Prologue, Chaucer
and Medieval Estates Satire; the Literature of Social Classes and the General
Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. (Cambridge [Eng.] University Press, 1973) [PR
1868.P9 M3], shows the influence on Chaucer of ____________________a
censorious survey of society. It is a mode rather than a genre but well worth
considering in this matter.
http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/canttales/gp/
2. Fourteenth-century literature is much concerned with the different estates and
orders, often _______________with a sense that society as a whole has gotten out of
hand.
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/middleages/topic_1/satire.htm
3. One of the many reasons for our attraction to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales may be its
manner of articulating ____________, for these issues arise out of the structure of
the Tales as a competitive collection.
http://newchaucersociety.org/blog/entry/desiring-chaucer
4. Chaucer and the Mystics is a contextualization of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury
Tales in terms of the genre Chaucer himself valorizes in his Retraction, the prose
treatise of ____________________.
http://english.tamu.edu/dr-robert-boenig/
5. With such specific descriptions of the Knight's activities, it is probable that the Knight served
as a model of persons Chaucer actually knew. It has even been purported that a certain Yorkshire
family of Scrope was in Chaucer's mind as he portrayed his noble figure representative of the
__________________.
http://www.knightstemplar.org/articles/0907/chaucer.pdf
6. A woman’s role in The Canterbury Tales is firmly set as either that of a _______ or that of a
_________. However, the tales told by female narrators are a display of individual hopes and
dreams of women who are not completely satisfied with the tradition that determines their
position in society. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales portray the
________________________of the Middle Ages, also individuals who fall short of these
ideals, and solutions of people who seek happiness.
http://is.muni.cz/th/74590/ff_m/chaucer.pdf
Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales
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7. In endowing medieval man and medieval characters with "personality" we
are presupposing in the man a moral autonomy and a manner of
introspection he is unlikely to have expressed, and in literary characters,
a ______________, external or "psychological" calculated to elicit the
sympathetic identification of the reader.
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8a. Scholars divide the tales into ten ________________. The tales that make up a
_______________ are directly connected, usually with one character speaking to and handing
over to another character, but there is no connection between most of the other
________________.
8b. The Canterbury Tales can also tell modern readers much about "the occult" during
Chaucer's time, especially in regards to _________________ and the __________________
lore prevalent during Chaucer's era. There are hundreds if not thousands of astrological
allusions found in this work; some are quite overt while others are more covert in nature.
http://www.timetravel-britain.com/articles/history/chaucer.shtml
9. Just as the Great Chain of Being established the ranking of humans relative to God and rocks,
the Three Estates subdivide humans by social positions, those who fight (the
________________), those who pray (the ______________) and those who work (the
__________________). The aristocrats were associated with politics, and the clergy was
broken down further into the rankings of the Church. Agricultural laborers, craftsmen and the
middle class constitute the third estate.
http://scholarworks.uno.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1591&context=td
10. The medieval family, whether ________________ or ____________ class, adhered to a
hierarchy based on gender: the medieval family is arranged with the father and male children
at the top of the hierarchy and the mother and daughters at the bottom. Men were in control
of the power and freely exercised their authority over women in domestic and religious
affairs.
http://scholarworks.uno.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1591&context=td
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