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Near the turn of the fourteenth century the art of composing romantic poetry entertained the inhabitants of northwestern England. Many highly educated men participated in this art and form of entertainment. Most created tales, termed epics, were also very important to the history of the individual author's nation or race. One of the three great epic poets of this period, Geoffrey Chaucer, fashioned a co ....
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.... had no right to test the "truths" of time; conflicted with the Renaissance man who disputed the catholic norm and thought it right to form his own separate social groups.
Geoffrey Chaucer best illustrates this drastic change in times in one of his twenty-two stories included in the Canterbury Tales titled the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. In this excellent piece of literary work a woman, the Wife of Bath, tests the biblical and moral standards ....
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