Age of Chaucer occupies the middle English period of
England. The transition from declining feudalism to an emerging economy, The Norman conquest in 1066 brought French in the England
society, there was literary con ventins and artistic tastes, Mainly the historical events which take place in the 14th
century, the older chivalric, aristocratic culture
In Chaucer’s time the revival
of alliterative verse the vehicle of social and moral protest
Age of Chaucer Historical background
- In the time of Chaucer the European feudalism to an emerging economy characterized by the rise of middle classes.
- English people were living in few numbers, self-sufficient villages and Chaucer himself suggested the change in his writings
- The growing Importance and wealth of towns by trade and commerce. Through lucrative wool trade, agricultural land
Certain historical events
- The Hundred Years War
- Black Death
- Peasants Revolt
Hundered Years War
England and France, begins 1337 which rooted the feudal
structure of European society
The modern states begins transition from medieval to
renaissance Europe
The dispute starting from English possessions on French
soil and this war with French and
Scotland starting of English monarchy
Black death
The high infections bubonic plague spread across in the
whole Europe by black rats. This black death affected the towns more than
villages. 1/3rd population of English was came into effect.
Cultural Background
According to Chaucers worse he divided the society into 3
estates
- The knight – nobility
- The working man – the third estates
- Ecclesiastic – the church
He wrote the Canterbury tales
which shows the ideal and the actual as the code of Chivalry.
Country love conventions presented
by Chaucer. At that time marriages were negotiated win great haste an purely
commercial motives.
Intellectual Background
The Christian Church were playing the central role Chaucer
converted the main idea of locals and aristocratic society. Lollards remembered for the first English transaction of
Bible through the guidance of Wycliffe. In the Chaucer’s time Astrology and medicine were close.The fact that physicians suggesting to patients for cheat
the horoscope first before treatment. The pseudo-science of archery.
Literacy Background
- The normen conquest from (1066 + 087) ends up from the Reformation.
- This divided into 3 periods first – 1250 – occupied by Religious writings second period – (1250 to 1350) Romances
- Third period were Chaucer, Langland, Gower, pearl, all these writer occupied this whole period and starts the English literature.
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