Question

Explain the nobility social estate of the Knight in The Canterbury Tales. What features and attributes of this estate?

Answer 1

The Canterbury Tales, written towards the end of the fourteenth century by Geoffrey Chaucer, is considered an estates satire because it effectively criticizes, even to the point of parody, the main social classes of the time. These classes were referred to as the three estates, the church, the nobility, and the peasantry, which for a long time represented the majority of the population.