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    Canterbury Tales, A Contemporary Vision of The Change

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    The document analyzes Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to gain insight into social mobility in late medieval English urban society. It examines how merchants and craftspeople used strategies like ostentation, political participation, and marriage to maintain wealth within their social group and climb the social ladder. However, these urban residents also employed community cohesion, religious life, and language as markers of status. While wealth was a major factor in social mobility, virtue and gentilesse also played a role. The Canterbury Tales thus provide insight into how social mobility functioned in late medieval English towns and cities.

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    The document analyzes Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to gain insight into social mobility in late medieval English urban society. It examines how merchants and craftspeople used strategies like ostentation, political participation, and marriage to maintain wealth within their social group and climb the social ladder. However, these urban residents also employed community cohesion, religious life, and language as markers of status. While wealth was a major factor in social mobility, virtue and gentilesse also played a role. The Canterbury Tales thus provide insight into how social mobility functioned in late medieval English towns and cities.

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    The document analyzes Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to gain insight into social mobility in late medieval English urban society. It examines how merchants and craftspeople used strategies like ostentation, political participation, and marriage to maintain wealth within their social group and climb the social ladder. However, these urban residents also employed community cohesion, religious life, and language as markers of status. While wealth was a major factor in social mobility, virtue and gentilesse also played a role. The Canterbury Tales thus provide insight into how social mobility functioned in late medieval English towns and cities.

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    Canterbury Tales, A Contemporary Vision of The Change

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    The document analyzes Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to gain insight into social mobility in late medieval English urban society. It examines how merchants and craftspeople used strategies like ostentation, political participation, and marriage to maintain wealth within their social group and climb the social ladder. However, these urban residents also employed community cohesion, religious life, and language as markers of status. While wealth was a major factor in social mobility, virtue and gentilesse also played a role. The Canterbury Tales thus provide insight into how social mobility functioned in late medieval English towns and cities.

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    TRABAJO DE FIN DE GRADO

    LA PERCEPCIN DE LA MOVILIDAD SOCIAL EN LA INGLATERRA URBANA


    DEL SIGLO XIV: LOS CUENTOS DE CANTERBURY.

    Inmaculada Meln Juncosa

    ABSTRACT

    The crisis in the late mediaeval England resulted in changes in the conception of social
    order and in the formation of new urban identities both personal and collective. This
    study gives an insight into the social mobility of the period through Geoffrey Chaucers
    Canterbury Tales, a contemporary vision of the change.

    Three chapters articulate the discourse. Firstly, the different theories on social structure
    and the chances for mobility. The next two parts analyse merchants and craftspeople,
    the protagonists of urban mobility, by contrasting the pilgrims and their tales against
    historical facts. As a result, their struggle to go up the social ladder and its social
    implications are exposed.

    It is possible to conclude that ostentation, political participation and matrimony were


    used to keep fortunes within the group and to ascend socially. However and at the same
    time, group cohesion, religious community life and language were also used as a mark
    of status. Wealth was a key factor in mobility but so was virtue and gentilesse. This
    conclusion is the contribution of the Canterbury Tales to the study of social mobility.

    Key words: Canterbury Tales, social mobility, social structure.

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