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A 5 page paper which looks at the changes in western civilization as represented in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and the story The Song of Roland. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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history, cultures, social perspectives and many other conditions related to life in the past. This is considered the case with the classic The Song of Roland and Chaucers Canterbury Tales.
The Song of Roland, whose author is unknown, is believed to have been written between 1140 and 1170 whereas Canterbury Tales was written towards the end of the 14th century.
The following paper examines the two and discusses how cultures changed between the writing of the two works. Western Civilization: \ The Song of Roland and Canterbury Tales
The Song of Roland is a work that takes place during times when the Christians were essentially hunting down and warring with the Muslim people of the known world. The
focus of the story is upon this aspect of culture at the time. It was the time of the Crusades and it was a time of power, control, religion, and
culture as it relates to the story and the culture of the time. This particular story revolves around the power and importance of religion, and so the clergy and
the Church are of the utmost power and importance. The people followed into the Crusades for what they felt was righteous, that being Christianity. There was no doubt that Christianity
should control the entire known world and so the theme of religion, and the power of religious men, was not questioned in The Song of Roland. The power of religion
is seen in the following: "King Marsilies, his council finishing,/ Says to his men: Go now, my lords, to him,/ Olive-branches in your right hands bearing;/ Bid ye for
me that Charlemagne, the King,/ In his Gods name to shew me his mercy" (The Song of Roland VI). There is no doubt that the words, and intended result
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