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An 8 page paper which examines Chaucer’s attitudes and beliefs concerning the Church as seen in his Canterbury Tales. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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pilgrims who are essentially waylaid for a moment in time. As such the tales offers the reader a look at medieval life as it concerns many social, political, economic, personal,
and religious issues. In truth, religion played a very huge role in everyday life during Chaucers time and as such it is no surprise that there are many individuals, pilgrims,
who are religious or connected somehow with religion, adversely or not. The following paper examines Canterbury Tales in an attempt to understand what Chaucers views on the Church may well
have been. Chaucer and the Church Two authors, in examining many elements of Chaucers Canterbury Tales as they relate to the
Early Church, note that Chaucer was not necessarily of one opinion or another concerning the Church, which seems powerfully reflected in the diversity of his pilgrims, their prologues, and their
tales. The authors note the following, as it relates to the Nuns Tale: "By emphasizing the Chaucer who includes a tale such as the Second Nuns Tale in his anthology
of stories, we do not mean to characterize the poet as the religious, almost puritanical Chaucer whom Charles Muscatine identifies as an essentially new element in the Chaucer tradition (250).
The Chaucer we envisage here might regard this tale as valuable for its religious elements, for its depiction of a valiant woman who challenges the Roman authorities, and for its
thematic issues" (Kaiser; Dean). This offers valuable insight, especially considering that other than the Nuns Tales there is only one woman who is
a pilgrim in the stories and that is the Wife of Bath, a woman who has been explicated greatly in scholarly discussion of Chaucers work. Throughout Chaucers tales there are
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