It begins with a contest between the characters, who have met at the Tabard Inn, and ends with an apology absolving the author of any sacrilege in the book, since parts of the book satirize the Church.
It begins with a contest between the characters, who have met at the Tabard Inn, and ends with an apology absolving the author of any sacrilege in the book, since parts of the book satirize the Church. One story is about the adventures of a rooster named Chanticleer, while another involves the murder of a Christian boy by Jews and how his body is found, and a third is the story of Palamon and Arcite, two Greek knights who love the same woman. FTP, name this collection of 22 stories in verse and two in prose, written by Geoffrey Chaucer.          |
It begins with a contest between the characters, who have met at the Tabard Inn, and ends with an apology absolving the author of any sacrilege in the book, since parts of the book satirize the Church.
The {Canterbury Tales}