Canterbury Tales - Medieval Ch
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In discussing Chaucer's collection of stories called The
Canterbury Tales, an interesting picture or illustration of the
Medieval Christian Church is presented. However, while people demanded
more voice in the affairs of government, the church became corrupt --
this corruption also l ....
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relatively short period of time, but this was not because of the
success of the Augustinian effort. Indeed, the early years of this
mission had an ambivalence which shows in the number of people who
hedged their bets by practicing both Christian and Pagan rites at the
same time, and in the number of people who promptly apostatized when a
Christian king died. There is certainly no evidence for a large-scale
conversion of the common people to Christianity at this ....
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