MEDIEVAL LITERATURE: ROMANCE; GEOFFREY CHAUCER

By Kevin Vo

What does Medieval Literature Consist of?

Medieval Literature consist of wonders and marvels like fairy enchantments, giants, dragons, wizards, and sorceresses

And later prose tales relating knight that took quest to marry a princess

3 major principle sources; France, Britain, and Rome

Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-

1400) was an author who was mostly known for writing Medieval Novels.

He was born in London, when he was young he studied at the Inner Temple of London.

One book that Chaucer wrote was the Canterbury Tales, which is still today known as the greatest books of all time

Where did Medieval Literature come from?

Medieval Literature mostly came from Europe

Some of the stories were told by bards and were transferred to book form

Anglo-Normans Medieval Romance

literature was very much favored by the Anglo-Normans

Anglo-Normans were descendents of the Normans who ruled England in 1066

Anglo-Normans lived in Ireland and some parts of Wale

Romance in Medieval Literature