Geoffrey Chaucers Impression of Women during Medieval Times

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Impression of Women during Medieval Times Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales in the late 1400s. He came up with the idea of a pilgrimage to Canterbury in which each character attempts to tell the best story. In that setting Chaucer cleverly reveals a particular social condition of England during the time. In this period, the status, role, and attitudes towards women were clearly different from that of today. Two tales in …

…all show or deal with these characteristics of medieval women. Through their actions, The Canterbury Tales holds a clear view of one particular social condition of the time, the depravity of women. Bibliography Bibliography Blewitt, Ralph. The Middle Ages, “Courtesy Books.” Princeton: Princeton Press, 1993. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. New York: Bantum Books, 1964. “Geoffrey Chaucer.” (http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/19th-authors.html) Rhinesmith, Harvey. The Middle Ages “Family, Western European.” Princeton: Princeton Printing Press, 1993.