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sometimes
very large, from previous ones, and his work was influenced by the
general state of the literary world in which he lived. Storytelling was a major pastime
in England at the time, and storytelling competitions existed for hundreds of years.
In 14th-century England, the English Pui group was a group with an appointed leader
who judged songs. The winner received a crown like the winner of "Canterbury
Tales", a free dinner. It was not uncommon for pilgrims who went on a Hajj
pilgrimage to have a “master of ceremonies” chosen
to guide and organize the
journey. Harold Bloom believes that the structure is largely original, but inspired by
the” Haji “figures of Dante and Virgil from” Divine Comedy". New research
suggests that Harry Bailey, the innkeeper and host,
was the leading preamble
introducing each pilgrim to Harry Bailey's historical survey of the inhabitants of
Southwark, which survived in 1381.
The Canterbury Tales have more in common
with Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron than any
other work.
Like fairy tales, The Decameron
contains frame tales in which several different
storytellers tell a series of stories. In Decameron, the
heroes fled to the village to escape the Black Death.
It ends with Bokkachcho apologizing, much like
Choser's return to fairy tales. A quarter of Canterbury fairy tales are parallel to The
Decameron fairy tale, although most have closer similarities in other stories. Thus,
some scholars speculate that Choser is unlikely to have a copy
of the work in his
possession, instead that he may have read The Decameron at some point. Chaucer
may have studied Decameron during his first diplomatic mission to Italy in 1372.
Choser used a variety of sources, but some, notably, were frequently used in several
fairy tales, including the gospel, classical Ovid poetry, the works of the modern
Italian writers Petrarch and Dante. Chaucer was the first author to use the work of
these last two. Boethius '"consolation of philosophy" is found in several fairy tales,
as well as in the works of Chaucer's friend John Gower. Chaucer also seems to have
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borrowed from many religious encyclopedias and liturgical writings, such as John
Bromyard's
Summa praedicantium, the preacher's manual, and Jerome's Adversus
Jovinianum. Many scholars say that Choser is likely to meet Petrarch or Bokachcho.
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