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BY KEVIN VO
Medieval Literature
What does Medieval Literature Consist of?
Fairy Enchantments, giants, dragons, wizards, and sorceresses
And later prose tales relating knights that took quest to marry princesses
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400) was an author who was mostly known for writing Medieval Novels and Poems
He was born in London England
Studied at the Inner Temple of London
One Book that Chaucer wrote was the Canterbury Tales, which is still known today as one of the most greatest books of all time
Where did Medieval Literature come from?
Medieval Literature came from all parts of Europe
3 principle sources; France, Britain, Rome
Some of the stories were told by bards and were transferred to book form
Anglo-Normans
Medieval Romance was a very much favored genre upon these Normans
Anglo- Normans were descendents of the Normans lived in England in 1066
Romance In Medieval Literature
Highly favored genre in the Medieval Ages
Two Methods 1. Bards would tell stories
and it would get pass on to person to person until it gets published
2. The book would get written by a person who knows how to read and write and then gets published
Format of Medieval Literature
Knights with a heroic qualities goes on a quest to save or win the princesses hearts
These quest would get harder and harder as they go through the story
Their were three stages of Medieval Romance stories
Stages of Medieval Romance
Early forms- knight with super-human abilities goes on quest for the acceptance of the princess
Late Medieval forms- More chivalry and honor than Romance
Renaissance forms- more poetry, lust, sex appeal, and sometimes violence