We Are What We Eat Rennasaisance
We are what we eat! As we are envelop by the society we live in and the environment that surrounds us we become a result of all of the factors that are acting upon us, then we become a product of our society and every thing that we do is also a product of the society in which we live in. With this in mind, it is settled that Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is a product of the environment in which it was written.
The church handled most of the money. The churchmen live in wealth and luxury. One could say they were greedy. The church would collect tithes from everyone. The peasants would give one third of all their possessions and production to the church. The church also receives one third of the income from the Knights, the barons, and even the King had to pay his tithes (www.history.com). This shows how the church was rich and the members that made it up, who were not supposed have any properties were also rich. In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, he shows the same fraud by making the church characters such as the nun, and the pardoner to be wealthy and full of luxuries proving that Chaucer did acquire such examples from the society he lived in.
The social structure of the Middle Ages was organized round the system of Feudalism. Feudalism in practice meant that the country was not governed by the king but by individual lords, or barons, who administered their own estates, dispensed their own justice, made their own money, charge taxes and tolls, and demanded military service from vassals. Peasants work the land for the knight and give him a third of the production. The knight in turns offers the peasants protection: a baron, who receives one third of the knight's production, rules the knight. The baron in turn protects his knights. The king, who receives one third of the baron's production, rules the baron. The king in turn protects his barons (www.britainexpress.com). Everyone got his or her share with this type of governmental system. This clearly shows...
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