Chaucer Test: Background
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katcleary12 on October 12, 2010
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23 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1340-1400 | birth/death dates |
| Edward III | ruling King Chaucer was mainly under |
| wine and leather merchant | Chaucer's father's occupation |
| connection to wealthy/royal family | benefits of father's job |
| soldier, diplomat, customs agent | random jobs of Chaucers |
| Phillipa Roét | Wife of Chaucer. Lady in waiting to the Queen |
| Parliment of Foules, House of Fame, Romance of the Rose, Book of Duchess | other works of Chaucer |
| 1386 | year Canterbury tales was written |
| bowdy, scatological humor | style of Chaucer writing |
| Canterbury Cathedral | location of Pilgramage in Chaucer's work |
| 30 | ammount of Pilgrams involved in story |
| 4 | intended number of stories each |
| 120 | intended number of stories total |
| 24 | ammount of stories completed |
| Thomas Bekket | bones contained in Cathedral |
| Westminster Abbey | where Chaucer is burried |
| poet's corner | Chaucer was the first to be burried in _______ |
| Southwark | town pilgramage started in |
| Tabard Inn | place where the 30 pilgrams meet |
| Spring | typical time of year this pilgramage was taken |
| breton lay | a short, romantic poem |
| expelum | section of medieval sermon which sets forth examples and illustrations |
| Fabliaux | short story with a snappy ending |
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