30/9/07

Some of your answers (by the way: Thaks a lot!)

The Canterbury Tales, your answers!
Who wrote this book?
The book was written by Geoffrey Chaucer.
This collection of stories was written by Geoffrey Chaucer.
When was it written?
The stories were written in the 14th century.
It was written between 1381 and 1386.
It was written between the 1380’s and the late 1390’s.
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales between 1387 and 1400.

Where is Canterbury?
Canterbury is in England, in Kent's county
Canterbury (New Zealand) is in England (????)
Canterbury is in eastern Kent in the South East region of England.
How far is it from London? (remember far from)
Canterbury is to 89 km from London
It is 62.8mi (101,07 km) far from London.
It is 56mi(90km) far from London
What is a pilgrim?
-Someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion.
-A person who goes on a religious journey, their goal being to reach a specific holy place.
-It means: person who goes to a sanctuary by devotion
-IT Is one who undertakes a religious long journey or search of great moral significance. Sometimes the journey is to a sacred place.
-A person who does a trip to visit a sanctuary, with a staff and a cape
-One who embarks on a quest for something conceived of /as sacred.(choose the right one!)
-The pilgrim is a person who visits and travels to sacred places as religious act
-is someone who inmigrated from great britain to America (that's more than a pilgrim!)
-Is a people religioso. (good Spanglish!)
-who come from all layers of society (?????)
-Someone who journeys in foreign lands .

When was the printing press invented?
-It was invented in Germany by Johann Gutenberg in 1440
-Gutenberg in 1449, (it published the “Misal de Constanza”)
-The history says: The printing press with movable type was invented more or less at 1450 by Gutenberg. But some people say the printing press was invented in the X or XI century in China.
-The inventor of the modern press or of the mobile types was Johannes Gutenberg. His creation I take course in the middle of the 15th century.