The Merchant's Tale Context
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- Merchant's Tale Context
- Chaucer's Life and Work
- elected as a member of parliament in 1386 for Kent
- fought in the Hundred Year's War in France in 1359 when he was a teen, ransomed by king
- married Philip Roet in 1366 who was lady in waiting at royal household, improved social status
- began Canterbury Tales in 1387 where people go on a pilgrimage
- fluent in Italian due to merchant father's Genoese trading partners, lived there
- raised as a royal servant
- Attitudes to Women
- A housewife helped make a living by spinning wool, brewing ale or baking bread in order to sell and make money
- Christian convents allowed women to educate themselves while working in a religious role
- poor women had more liberties as noble women had share in estate and were controlle
- violation of virginity brought dishonour, women blamed for ****, noble women would be disowned
- Wives of merchants were able to keep accounts, manage the business records and tend to shops
- women were blamed for the original sin and were oppressed for it
- Attitudes to Marriage
- laws on who and how you could've sex with, premarital sex had death penalty
- marriage only ended through death or disproving legality of marriage
- people didn't marry for love but for social standards
- Attitudes to Societal Structure
- Peasants hated their place and revolted in 1381 for a reduction in taxesa change to treatment and position in ranking
- peasants working on farms could demand for higher wages due to Black Death deaths
- large divide between rich and poor, merchants were new in society
- Chaucer's Life and Work
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