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Canterbury Tales -- Ren Elements
Realistic Characters
Satiarical + Critical (of church)
Canterbury Tales -- Medieval Elements
Folk Tales + Archetypes
Trip is based on pious purpose
Glorifies England
Chaucer -- Influences
Dante's Divine Comedy -- lang. choice + couplets
Bocaccio's Decameron -- story idea
Chaucer -- Life
b. 1340-4 d. 1400
Educated, middle class
Bridged medieval --> renaissance
Modern English -- time
1550 -- today
Great Vowel Shift (1400)
-- Raising Middle Class = mixing of langs
-- Printing press (1470) + London English = standardization
-- 1755 -- 1st dictionary (Sam Johnson's Dictionary)
Middle English -- time
1066 -- 1550 CE
Old English + 10000 French words
1066 -- Norman invasion (William of Normandy)
Old English (Anglo-Saxon) -- time, characteristics, why changed
mid 5th c. to 1066 CE
Germanic + Celt/Pict tribes + Latin
430 -- Fall of Roman Empire
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