Fabliaux

thumb|An image from a manuscript likely depicting 'the priest that peeked' A fabliau (; plural fabliaux) is a comic, often anonymous tale written by jongleurs and clerics in France between c. 1150 and 1400. They are generally characterized by sexual and scatological obscenity, and by a set of contrary attitudes generally critical or mocking of the church and nobility. While most fabliaux were anonymous, we do know some authors like Jean Bodel or Guèrin, who wrote during the peak of the genre's popularity. Several of them were reworked by Giovanni Boccaccio for the Decameron and by Geoffrey Cha

part of the Canterbury Tales

upright=1.35|thumb|Ysengrimus, from a 12th-century MS in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

the third story told in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

part of the Canterbury Tales