Canterbury Tales was Chaucer ’s magnum opus. He uses the tales and the descriptions of its characters to paint an ironic and critical portrait of English society at the time‚ and particularly of the Church. Structurally‚ the collection resembles The Decameron‚ which Chaucer may have read during his first diplomatic mission to Italy in 1372. It is sometimes argued that the greatest contribution that this work made to English literature was in popularising the literary use of the vernacular‚ English‚ rather
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spalliere or cassone‚ a painted ornamental piece in which a bride stowed gifts. These wedding chests were as popular as double wedding portraits and painters were commissioned to depict scenery from well-loved tales such as Boccaccio’s Day IV of Decameron. From as early as the Late Middle Ages‚ these wooden chests featured inlaid or carved work and were decorated with whitechalk‚ gesso‚ paint‚ and gilding‚ and pastiglia‚ low relief decor. It was given to a bride and placed in the bridal suite. The
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Medieval Period Lecture: Historical Period Narrative Poem: The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales Narrative Poem: from The Pardoner’s Tale Narrative Poem: from The Wife of Bath’s Tale Topic Test B. Boccaccio: from The Decameron; Arthurian Legends Short Story: Federigo`s Falcon from the Decameron Lecture: Arthurian Legends Romance Narrative: from Le Morte d’Arthur Informational: King Arthur: Man or Myth? Romance Narrative: from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Topic Test C. Communication‚ Grammar‚ and Writing
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Drama Song of Roland Boethius=Consolation of Philosophy Commedia del Arte Roman de la Rose Dante=Divine Comedy La Vita Nuova Boccacio=Decameron Petrarch ENGLISH LITERATURE ANGLO –
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Awhile before the horrendous events of the Black Death occurred‚ there was The Great Famine of 1315. I had not previously heard of or known about this period of history before writing this paper. At the beginning of the 14th century‚ the population in Europe had steadily been growing so large that there was no room for any crop failure or shortage. However‚ climate change in the spring of 1315 gave them a wet spring that proved to be harsh on the people until the summer of 1317. The people were weakened
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will return to. Chaucer uses the also collection of stories to depict an ironic picture of the English society at this point in history. Chaucer may have gained inspiration on the structure of the “Canterbury Tales” from a work of art known as “The Decameron” in 1372. Throughout the “Canterbury Tales” there has been detailed character development. This character development also adds another characteristic to a mock-heroic. This characteristic is length. It provides insight on who the characters are
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The Plague is a disease caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis. It is responsible for killing millions of people in the Middle Ages. However‚ today we have a cure for it. The author Giovanni Boccacio wrote The Decameron to report‚ warn‚ and record the disease. He wanted people to be aware of what happened. The disease spread from place to place‚ animal to human‚ human to human. The people around it were aware that it was spreading and understood that is was “contagious”. As a result‚ they got rid
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The Short Story History: as a form dates back to the oral tradition of the tale written tales emerge in poetic forms - Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Boccaccio’s Decameron (1351-1353) often cited as the precursor of the short story form‚ as is the French translation of The Thousand and One Nights (1704) short story really begins to emerge as a form in the 19th century Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1824-1826) an early collection of folk stories that paved the way for the development of the genre of short
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Bryan Rayburg September 8‚ 2009 Early Modern History MWF 10-10:50 Response Paper 1 The Black Death And How Society Dealt With It Giovanni Boccaccio talks about the Black Death in The Decameron a whole lot not only about how many people it killed‚ but also some treatments‚ funerals‚ and also how effective it really was. The sick during this time were ignored by mostly everyone. Not even family of most sick would try and care for them because they feared that they themselves would catch
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deems it “proper to represent things” as they truly are the intimation of the former statement remains‚ but Machiavelli takes his own advice on outward appearance to preserve himself. This is comparable to Boccaccio’s statement in the epilogue to Decameron that “no story is so unseemly as to prevent anyone from telling it‚ provided it is told in seemly language” (Boccaccio 798). The radical approach to morality of which Machiavelli is a proponent is similarly dualistic. The discussion of cruelty
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