'the Pilgrimage Itself Is, After All, Was A Social As Well As Religious Event'. What Evidence Do We Find In The 'general Prologue' To The Canterbury Tales, That Chaucer Wished To Examine The Social Reality Of His Time From Many Different Perspect...
In this essay I will attempt to prove that Geoffrey Chaucer’ General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales not only provides a view of medieval society from a religious perspective but also from a secular view. The reality of medieval society however is that the two were not clearly independent of each other, you could hardly speak of one without making some implication on the other, for example common law and religious morality would have been one and the same. The clergy people of the time would also have been somewhat privileged and was certainly one way of climbing the social ladder and achieving a higher status in society as well as being educated. Educated clergy often ran the businesses of the nobles for profit and also were employed in civil service positions. Indeed it might have been hard to separate some of clergy from the wealthy higher classes in regards to lavish lifestyles and appetites for the worldly goods that life had to offer.
Despite clerical indulgences and lack......
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