The Artistic Observer During the period of transition before the renaissance, Petrarch and other Italian writers seemed to express the spirit of individualism that we would most closely identify with that period of time. However, the greatest English writer of the century, Geoffrey Chaucer, rema...

Sit and Spin: Chaucer's social commentary grows from so-called "intrusion" The relationship Geoffrey Chaucer establishes between "outsiders" and "insiders" in The Canterbury Tales provides the primary fuel for the poetry's social commentary. Both ...

The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer is a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Thomas a' Becket's tomb in Canterbury. Throughout the stories, women are often portrayed in two opposing ways. The women in these tales are either depicted as pristin...