The Canterbury Tales Background

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