Questions › Chapter 3: A long and illustrious history
Who wrote The Canterbury Tales, poems in English about pilgrims telling stories on their way to Canterbury?
- ASt Augustine
- BJohn Barbour
- CGeoffrey ChaucerRight answer
- DWilliam Caxton
Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in the years before 1400. The pilgrims in the poems tell each other stories as they travel.
From chapter 3 of the handbook, "A long and illustrious history", section "The Middle Ages". Practice question 81 of 651, written in our own words.