杰弗里·乔叟的作品弥漫着一股浓厚的人文主义气息,这在其代表作《坎特伯雷故事》中得到充分体现——既歌颂爱情、性欲、女性和大自然,又讽刺司法制度和宗教僧侣。当然,乔叟的这一人文主义思想并非完美无缺,也存在一些局限:一是由于过于强调性的解放,容易导致人们陷入纵欲的深渊;二是残留基督教的神学色彩;三是讽刺不够彻底犀利。 Geoffrey Chaucer’s work is filled with a strong humanistic atmosphere, which is fully reflected in his representative Canterbury Tales - singing love, sexuality, women and nature, and satirizing the judicial system and religious monks . Of course, this humanistic idea of ​​Chaucer is not perfect, but also has some limitations: First, it is easy to cause people to plunge into the abyss of indulgence due to the over-emphasis on sexual liberation; second, the residual theological color of Christianity; thirdly, the irony is not completely sharp .