LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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Landlords had growing problems with their tenants.
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The lack of guilds led to a decline in available civic services.
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A modern social hierarchy developed.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Daily Life In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer tells us not only about social change and religious diversity in his society, but also about everyday life. Reading the tales helps us learn a lot about eating, drinking, and traveling in late medieval England.
Detailed explanation-2: -The pilgrims come from different parts of society-the court, the Church, villages, the feudal manor system.
Detailed explanation-3: -The most important aspect of real-life pilgrimage used by Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales is the fact that a wide variety of people, of different classes and different places might be found together on a pilgrimage.
Detailed explanation-4: -Chaucer describes the pilgrims of The Canterbury Tales as a “sondry folk", meaning a very diverse group. They all come from different walks of life. For example, the Knight is chivalrous, worthy, truthful, honorable, and courteous. His son, the Squire, is lively, lusty, delicate, and handsome.