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The Late Middle Ages or Late Medieval Period was the period of European
history generally comprising the 14th and 15th centuries (c. 13011500).
The Late Middle Ages followed the High Middle Ages and preceded the
The poem is the third longest of Chaucers
onset of the early modern era (and, in much of Europe, the Renaissance).
works, after The Canterbury
Tales and Troilus and Criseyde and is
possibly the first significant work
in English to use the iambic
pentameter or decasyllabic couplets which
he later used throughout the Canterbury
Tales. This form of the heroic couplet would
become a significant part of English
literature no doubt inspired by Chaucer.