Canturbury Gariepy

Geoffrey Chaucer

Father of English Litachure

Middle to Upper middle

Grew up

World

Man of the

Page

Worked as a

King Edward

Worked for

Philippa de Rout

Married

3 or 4

Children

Hundred year war

Fought in

Captured and ransomed

he was

Gallon of wine daily

Rewarded

Customs

Controller

Justice

Of the peace

France and Italy

Diplomat to

Westminister abbey and tower of London

Supervised

Died of unknown causes

1400

Poet’s Corner

Buried in

Magnum Opus

Chaucer’s

Journey

People thrown together

Cross section

medieval society

Professions

14th century

Folly to wisdom

characteristics

17000

Lines of poetry

Known all our lives

Louis

Good at characterization

Chaucer’s known

Frame Tale

Story within a story

29

Pilgrims

Shrine of St. Thomas of Beckett

Traveled

King Henry 2

Appointed

Pope

sided with

1170 Canterbury

murdered

Saint and Martyr

Canonized

Pilgrimage

Shrine of Beckett

Incomplete

Tale

Middle English

Written tales

Fertility and re birth

Spring

Church had too much power

Corruption of

Church and state

no seperatio

Complexity of human nature

virtues and flaws

Irony

Poor are noble and valued are despicible