When we trace the "Age of Chaucer" we will find that it is full of considerable number of religious, social and political events that profoundly influenced Chaucer himself and induced him to produce great masterpieces of Arts that contributed to English language at that time. Thus, it is very important to discuss the periods that England, at that time, went through and their intimate relations with the Age of Chaucer in order to understand fully the background of this age.

Great Britain is divided into England, Wales and Scotland. Its inhabitants, the Britons, spoke Celtic. From the first to the fifth century, England was a province of the Roman Empire and was named Britannia. In addition to this change, the Roman invaders brought Christianity, thus, the entire island converted to it gradually. The Anglo-Saxon invaders of the island brought with them a tradition of oral poetry because nothing...