Greek, Roman, and Renaissance vs. Hebrew, Christian, and Medieval

The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales seem to have a closer outlook to the Greek and Roman literature than the Hebrew, Christian, early Medieval, and late Medieval literature.  The Hebrew literature is the Old Testament, the Christian is the New Testament, the some of the early and late Medieval literature are The City of God, and The Little Flowers of St. Francis.  The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales were written in the time of the Early Renaissance when some people started moving a bit away from Christianity (although very many people still believed in God and Jesus Christ as the source of the full potential of man) and started reading more of the Roman and Greek literatures.

The Old Man

In one of the stories of the Canterbury Tales, written by Chaucer, three men are on the search for Death after they had witnessed a man, whose life was taken away by Death, being carried to a grave.  They then had made a vow to each other that they would seek out Death and kill him themselves.  Along their journey, they come across an old man who says that he knows where Death lives and that Death could never die.