The world of Chaucer 1330-1400-Medieval writers-Key events--The Black Death--Social and political unrest - The Peasants' Revolt--John Wyclif and challenges to the Church-Making sense of the tangible world--Common aspects of medieval society--The relationship between Church and society--Death in society and culture--The power of the monarch--Astronomy and Astrology--Alchemy--Pilgrims and pilgrimage-Making sense of the intangible world--Ideas shaped by the Church--Medieval beliefs about sin and forgiveness--Medieval attitudes to poverty and wealth--Death and mutability--The chain of being--Attitudes to women in medieval writing--The courtly love ethic Medieval writersGeoffrey Chaucer Biography Timeline The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale text guide The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale text guide
