The Canterbury Tales Background

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