LIMITATION IN LITERATURE AND IN SOCIAL LIFE

This week, we talked about The Middle Ages, Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales which is a collection of stories. Now, I want to give more information about Middle Ages that affected authors and their works in all respects. Because knowledge of middle-age lets us understand better the authors living in that period and their works written in that period, I chose The Middle Ages.

According to my research, Middle Ages began the 5^th century and it ended the 15^th century. The collapse of the Western Roman Empire caused starting of The Middle Ages. And, the Renaissance caused ending of it. There was scholastic thought in society. According to this thought, everything in the Bible was true and people didn’t say different thing from it. Moreover, church supported this idea and it restricted people. That is, there was dogmatism in society and  religion was more important than mind. Consequently, science didn’t improve and this age was called as a dark period.

As for literature of this age, it was affected from dogmatism and scholastic thought. Authors couldn't be free because of these ideas in society and they didn’t write whatever they want. They mentioned the "other world" idea under pressure of church  in their works. Besides, they wrote legends of heroism and chivalry.

In conclusion, there was limitation both in literature and in social life in this period. Also, people’s opinions except for nobles and priests were ignored.