Was chaucer a protestant

Answer 1

The world's first protestant was Jan Hus - a Czech pastor who quarreled with the Roman Catholic church and was burned at the stake in 1415.

Geoffrey Chaucer was already dead in 1415 (he seems to have died around 1400), so he was Roman Catholic (as were almost all European Christians at that time).

The movement of dissent within the Roman Catholic church which would eventually give rise to Protestantism had already begun in Chaucer's time: the church' critics were called lollards.

Chaucer makes good-natured fun of lollards in The Canterbury Tales, so it is likely he had little sympathy with protestantism as a point of view.

Answer 2

By all accounts, Chaucer (like most people in England at that time) was a Christian. But while he certainly seemed faithful to Christian belief, in some ways he was also a skeptic. For example, his best known work, the Canterbury Tales, used humor and satire to poke fun at people who claimed to be religious but were in fact greedy, self-centered, and hypocritical. I am not sure what you mean by "religious structure," but Chaucer did seem to feel it was acceptable to question religious authority-- in the Canterbury Tales, which is about a number of Christians making a religious pilgrimage, he pointed out the flaws and foibles of even monks and nuns. But that said, there is no evidence he rejected his Christian roots, nor did he attack Christian theology. It was the liars and the hypocrites who seemed to annoy him, because they claimed to be setting an example of Christian piety, when in fact they were lustful, manipulative, or avaricious.

Answer 3

Chaucer was a devout Catholic during his lifetime. While he did not openly criticize the Catholic Church in his work, his writing did show some critique of the clergy and the corruption within the church.

Answer 4

He was an Atheist I think.