In the last Literature course, firstly we talked about Middle Ages and Europe. Then, we continued with Canterbury Tales. We learned a lot of new and useful information. There were things to make me interested in this course. So, I want to share some of them.
One of the most important things that I deeply paid attention in the last course while we were talking about Middle Ages was there was no freedom of thought in Europe. Also, there were no scientists because the church did not allow to think. But at that times, The Ottoman Empire had medresseh in which was taught positive sciences and moral. This showed how Ottomans was different from Europe in terms of education at that times. After the Crusades, the West took many inventions from us like paper, compass, powder etc. Western people got a lot of information from us and they realized they had been deceived by church for a long while.
The another thing that I want to share is Canterbury Tales whose writer was Geoffrey Chaucer. They are stories that were told by pilgrims to make their travel more enjoyable while they were on road to visit the grave of St. Thomas Backet. Geoffrey intended to create 120 tales but only 24 tales was created because he died.
Geoffrey always used irony and ridicule in these tales and he critisized society. So, he was the first author and poet to write about real characters and criticize the society. Tales are about topics of non-religious and daily life.
Consequently, literature can shape social life and people's thought. Thanks to literary works, people can be enlightened by authors and philosophers even if they had lived in dark period.
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