BY KEVIN VO

Medieval Literature

What does Medieval Literature Consist of?

Fairy Enchantments, giants, dragons, wizards, and sorceresses

And later prose tales relating knights that took quest to marry princesses

Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400) was an author who was mostly known for writing Medieval Novels and Poems

He was born in London England

Studied at the Inner Temple of London

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

Where did Medieval Literature come from?

Medieval Literature came from all parts of Europe

3 principle sources; France, Britain, Rome

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

Anglo-Normans

Medieval Romance was a very much favored genre upon these Normans

Anglo- Normans were descendents of the Normans lived in England in 1066

Romance In Medieval Literature

Highly favored genre in the Medieval Ages

Two Methods 1. Bards would tell stories

and it would get pass on to person to person until it gets published

2. The book would get written by a person who knows how to read and write and then gets published

Format of Medieval Literature

Knights with a heroic qualities goes on a quest to save or win the princesses hearts

These quest would get harder and harder as they go through the story

Their were three stages of Medieval Romance stories

Stages of Medieval Romance

Early forms- knight with super-human abilities goes on quest for the acceptance of the princess

Late Medieval forms- More chivalry and honor than Romance

Renaissance forms- more poetry, lust, sex appeal, and sometimes violence