The Canterbury Tales Background

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Across
  1. 3. The goal of satire is to ________ society
  2. 5. What language the Tales written in
  3. 7. Clothes were washed _____ a week
  4. 10. The rules and customs of medieval knighthood
  5. 12. The author's original plan was to write _____ tales per pilgrim
  6. 14. Where Chaucer is from
  7. 16. The author's masterpiece
  8. 18. Land holder
  9. 19. a medieval English landowner of free, but not noble, birth
  10. 20. Life expectancy at the time
  11. 21. Introductory part of a poem or novel
  12. 22. A knight in training
Down
  1. 1. Virgin, Wife, Window
  2. 2. Reduced the population of England
  3. 4. having supreme power or authority
  4. 6. A knight will do anything to make a woman happy
  5. 8. Nun in charge of other nuns
  6. 9. Satire aims to expose stupidity and/or _________ in a society
  7. 11. clergy member allowed, by the Pope, to sell pardons for sins
  8. 13. Period of time when the Tales occur
  9. 15. 3 Estates: _______, nobility, peasantry
  10. 17. A woman is treated with the utmost love and respect from a __________
  11. 23. Appointed town official in charge of other peasants