General Features of Middle Ages
History of people is divided into ages because of important events like war,invasion. These periods have different features. One of them is middle age.
Middle ages is known dark times because of church. Church had an great importance. People couldn't venture to object against church. So many things were forbidden by it. Because;if people realized mistakes of church,they would loss their belief. So church used this method. In addition to this,people had status according to their job. So people hadn't got equal rigts.
Literature was verbal generally in middle ages. But first written works were seen in this period. Heroic stories and poems were told. Not only heroic but also romance stories took their place. Especially,bards interested in stories and poems. So, verbal things formed large part of literature.
English and French works effected literature of middle ages result of social and political events. These are Norman Conquest,Peasants' Revolt,The Blackdeath and effected to nearly whole region. Church was effected especially Norman Conquest. Thanks to it, nation realized corruption of religious institution.
After this victory English language became local. Bible could reach common people. Church lost it's impression. Than an upsetting event occured in Middle Ages. It was The Blackdeath. It caused to decrease population. I learned an interesting information from Linguistic course. A common word “ Bless you! “ comes from middle ages. The Blackdeath started with cough and sneeze. So people said each other “God bless you.”
The most important evidence of this period is The Canterbury Tales. It consists of many stories. It was written about different subjects. Pilgrims gave some help to these stories by telling them in various places.
As a result,many events effect nations,cultures,countries,literatures. So,English literature reached today by effecting critical unusal event.
