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Geoffery Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer was one of the most influential authors of the late Middle Ages. He was born in London, England, but the exact date is unknown. Chaucer was probably the son of John Chaucer a tavern keeper, who was deputy to the king's butler. He may have gone to either Oxford or Ca ....
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.... Chaucer shows how greed is present in all men.
However, in "The Cleric's Tale," the wife of the lord Walter is patient and accepting of everything her husband does. This does not show that wives should accept whatever their husbands do, but that "Griselda's patient acceptance of the inscrutable will of her earthly husband may be taken as a moving example of how the Christian should submit to the Divine will," whatever may befall him in his life (Edden 370). "If Griselda showed such patience to the will of a flawed earthly husband, then what ....
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