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THE AGE OF CHAUCER 1340 - 1400, :red_flag: Sympathy with some of…

- - - - Rolled in wealth and luxury
        
        Lived in a godless and materialistic world
  - - - Spirit of new learning weakened the Church's influence
      - Humanism quickened the sense of beauty and delight in life
      - Root claims that the Renaissance movement began and our modern world started
  - - - Italian Period
        
        Chaucer was influenced by Dante and Boccaccio.
      - French Period
        
        Chaucer imitated the French poetry and romance that was popular at the time.
      - English Period
        
        Chaucer became more independent and relied on his own ideas and creativity.
      - The Canterbury Tales is considered his most famous and characteristic work.
- - - - :red_flag: did not reflect the dark underside of his time
- - - - It is a history of Scotland's struggle for freedom from the year 1286 until the death of Bruce and the burial of his heart (1332).
- - - - Maundeville was born at St.
        Albans, and set out on his journey in 1322
      - It is now established that no such person as the alleged author ever existed
      - Maundeville's book gives a circumstantial account of what he had seen and heard during many years of wanderings in the Holy Land and the far east
      - Even though it is only a translation, it keeps its place as the first English prose classic.