Religious_Symbolism_In_The_Middle_Ages

Religious Symbolism In The Middle Ages Literature can influence people’s lives, tell a story, and teach a history lesson all at once. The time in which an author lives, the people he surrounds himself with, and his or her upbringing, all affect their personal style of writing. Authors do not simply grab ideas out of thin air or from the sky. Author’s stories come from their experiences and from their elder’s experiences-stories that were retold and past on to them. Authors of the middle ages were one of the first to put story to paper. Popular topics for the first early works were the current topics of the day, whether it was a war, peacetime, or a time of transition. Religion ruled the land and people, in the early centuries. In reading the literature from these times, it is highly evident that religion played a major influence in these early works. Almost all of the stories/poems in class so far has contained some kind of religious reference. Two stories that have strong evidence of the role and impact of religion in society is shown in the epic poem Beowulf of the eighth century and Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales of the beowulf, people, god, chaucer, time, story, pilgrimage, out, one, help, government, church, canterbury, tales, religion, lives, grendel, century, works, tell, religious, going, geoffrey, ages, times, stories, played, norton, monk, middle, man, lord, literature, land, history