What conclusions can you draw about the range of medieval taste in literature?

The range of medieval taste in literature reflects a
culturally diverse time period. Spanning from 5th century to the 15th century, medieval
genres include tales of saint's lives, religious instruction, aristocratic romances, and
eventually, more complex works like Chaucer's Canterbury Tales—just to name a few. This
huge historical time period-often called the Middle Ages-has often been overgeneralized
and simplified as a time between antiquity and the Renaissance. Early medieval
readership was limited to clerics during the earlier part of this time period, but as
cities grew, a middle class of bureaucrats joined the readership. Thus, one conclusion
that can and should be made about the wide and diverse medieval taste in literature, is
that in order to understand and appreciate 'medieval literature,' one must contextualize
with more specificty, as opposed to generalizing this entire time
period.