the changes to come. Also, for the first time, some elements of human psychology can be seen. As the cities grew and more citizens became more educated, new genres appeared the fable and the (fablio) fabliau(x). Fables are short stories with animals for characters and usually a moral at the end. The most famous fable-writer Aesop. Fabliaux a comic, often has excessive sexual and scatological obscenity. Burghers, cuckolding (a cuckold a man who's wife cheated on him).
Importance of the church during the Middle Ages (5th c to 15th c). Three languages used in England: French, English and Latin. Main literary genres: (1) chivalric romance, (2) the fabliau (a comic, often anonymous tale that is characterised by an excess of sexual and other types of obscenity) and (3) literature on religious topics – either moralistic (teach right from wrong) or ecclesiastical (biblical subject). Middle ages – English becomes a literary language. Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) –
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