Part one of term paper
...I think some of Chaucer belongs to his time and that much of that time is dead, extinct, and never to be made alive again. What was alive in it, lives through him..._ --John Masefield Geoffrey Chaucer¦s world was the Europe of the fourteenth century. It was neither rich or poor, happy nor sad. Rather, it was the intermingling of these, ...

Part two of term paper
... in which he lived was not one of peace or stability. Born the son of a London vintner, he remained a Londoner for most of the rest of his life, leaving the city only on ¦the King¦s business_. The city of London was thus Chaucer¦s environment for most of his life. Aside from brief visits into other countries or areas of England, he remained in the city, and it¦s affects on his writing was immense. London of that time was not the London of today. It was a walled city, guarded against inva ...