The Canterbury Tales Background

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