1. The culture of the early Britons changed greatly under the influence of Christianity.

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development of feudal Christianity came and it brought a lot to the culture of the Britons.
2. Because the whole country was under the protection of the church. And the education as
well. In monastic schools, children were educated and taught to read and write. The
influence of the church on the sciences was very great.
3. Bede was a writer of this time. Saint Bede’s best known work was his book «The History
of the English Church». For his work, Bede was conferred with the title, «The Father of
English History». His books were known throughout Christian Europe. This book was well
known in France and Italy because people of the Middle Ages considered it a scientific book.
4. The book is important because it shows what the country was like thirteen hundred years
ago and how men acted and thought at that time.
5. Alfred was known for having built the first navy and for trying to enlighten his people.
6. Most of the writers were educated at Universities.
7. Oxford was the first university and Cambridge was the second.
8. The king Edward III made war with France in 1337. He wished to become the king of
France.
9. The greatest writer of the 14th century was Geoffrey Chaucer.
10. The language of The Canterbury Tales is Middle English, spoken and written in Britain
between 1100 and 1500. The Canterbury Tales is a poetic story of a group of people, who
were going to pilgrimage. They were going to the tomb of St. Thomas a Bechet in
Canterbury, which is about sixty miles from London in England. In that group, there were
clergy and laity people. And in the poem Chaucer described all of them so well that we can
easily see the picture of how they lived and how they behaved in manners of work and other
ways of life. And while he was describing, he also criticized some members of the clergy
position, because of their abusing of their position and doing things that they were not
supposed to do, or not doing something they were supposed to do in their position. Among
those people whom Chaucer criticized very much were the Friar and the Pardoner. One of
the pilgrims, Chaucer’s persona or narrator, who is a civil servant, retells us the stories.
Chaucer’s characters are types as well as individual characters; each of the individuals
represents his/ her class, profession, age, gender or some sort of type, but at the same time
each one of them is described with such personal details about facial features, build, dress,
individual traits, likes and dislikes, and so on, in order to make us feel that he/she is a real
individual human being of the time.