The feature of medieval life that is reflected in this excerpt is the acceptance of the Church's authority.
This excerpt is part of "The Pardoner's Prologue" from <em>The Canterbury Tales </em>written by Geoffrey Chaucer. Moreover, it shows the acceptance of the Church's authority in the Middle Ages.<u> During this period, the Church was not only a powerful force but also the dominant institution</u> since it had the power to influence and control every aspect of people's lives. In this excerpt, <u>the narrator refers to the power of members of the Church, priests and clerics, of interdicting someone, which means prohibiting someone from doing holy work. </u>
He looks back in his past and got new shoes. but this bad kids stole them from.
The correct answer is:
This is an example of the writer telling through description rather than showing through dialogue.
Sometimes writers like to explain explicitely what's happening instead of adding dialogues of the situations., which is the case in this passage,
Some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed . . . it is very well known, that they are every day dying . . . as fast as can be reasonably expected.
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