From roughly the break up of the last of the polytheism, which comprised the beliefs of the the Roman Empire, in 381, to the rise of Protestantism and the discovery of new lands in the Americas, in Columbus journey of 1492. We will focus on early monastic Christianity as well as the Golden Era of Islam. Our two major works consist of "The Wife of Bath" tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's (1387-1400) The Canterbury Tales, published posthumously in 1478; the other is the more famous and iconic Arabian Nights, know as 1001 Nights or, in Arabic, from a Persian book, Hazār Afsān (or Afsaneh or Afsana), meaning "The Thousand Stories." Like Gilgamesh, these stories have been past down through storytellers and, like Canterbury Tales, has a persuasively moral message. As is typical of the age, these are parables, based on biblical or koranic instruction, and work within a literary style called "The framed narrative."
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What are your first impressions of the 1001 Nights after reading the stories? pick one story to compare to the ancient era in The Epic of Gilgamesh, how do any of these stories relate.
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