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Canterbury Tales
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Geoffrey Chaucer, first person to use English in literature | Father of English Literature, why? |
| Harry Bailey | only real person in Canterbury Tales |
| 31 | how many people total? |
| Harry Bailey | who judges stories? |
| Chaucer Pilgrim | gullible 17 year old |
| hymn to spring | first 18 lines of CT |
| knight, parson, plowman | three people Geoffrey admires |
| knight | followed chivalry |
| knight | no man had fought in more battles |
| knight | sat in chair of honor above all nations |
| knight | 15 mortal battles (to the death) |
| knight | sovereign value in all eyes |
| knight | modest as a maid (virgin) |
| knight | never said a boorish thing |
| knight | not gaily dressed |
| knight | tunic stained/smudged from armor |
| knight | before going home, he's going on pilgrimage and gave thanks |
| squire | son of knight (riding with him) |
| squire | lover and cadet |
| squire | clothes embroidered with red and white flowers |
| squire | curly locks that looked like they had been pressed |
| squire | 20 year old |
| squire | moderate length of stature with wonderful agility and strength |
| squire | service with cavalry to impress ladies (stays in the back) |
| squire | whistled/fluting all day |
| squire | short gown with baggy sleeves |
| squire | brags that he can sit on a horse and ride, sing songs, poems, joust, dance, draw, and write |
| squire | got all the ladies |
| squire | bragged a lot |
| yeoman | rode with the knight and squire |
| yeoman | green coat and hood |
| yeoman | peacock-feathered arrows that haven't been used |
| yeoman | head like a nut with brown face |
| yeoman | wore a saucy brace on his arm like a guard |
| yeoman | jaunty dirk slipped in his belt |
| yeoman | medal of St. Christopher on breast |
| nun | a prioress |
| nun | simple and coy smile |
| nun | greatest oath was "By St. Loy!" |
| Madam Eglantyne | nun's name |
| nun | spoke French |
| nun | good-mannered but eats all the food rather than giving it to poor |
| nun | drama queen |
| nun | had little dogs fed better than hobos |
| nun | gray eyes |
| nun | special veil showing more face |
| nun | small, red lips |
| nun | coral bracelet |
| nun | nice figure |
| nun | gaudy green beads around her neck with a golden brooch of brightest sheen with a crowned A and said "Amor vincit omnia" |
| another nun and 3 priests | who rode with the nun? |
| monk | hunter |
| monk | owns a stable of horses |
| monk | had greyhounds, might bet on them |
| monk | had bells on his horses |
| monk | sleeves garnished at the hand with fine grey fur |
| monk | on his hood, to fasten at his chin he had a wrought gold fashioned pin (lover's knot) |
| monk | shiny, bald head |
| monk | fat with glittery eyes |
| monk | liked a fat swan |
| friar | collected alms for the poor but didn't seem to give them himself |
| friar | sets up marriages |
| friar | grants confessions using his special license from the pope |
| friar | he kept his tippet (hood) stuffed with pins for curls and pocket knives to give to pretty girls |
| friar | sang well and played the hurdy gurdy |
| friar | strong enough to butt a bruiser down |
| friar | he knew the innkeepers and barmaids better than the lepers and beggers |
| friar | paid rent for his begging-district |
| friar | lisps on purpose |
| merchant | forking beard, motley dress, Flemish beaver hat, buckled boots |
| merchant | he's in debt but seems rich |
| oxford cleric | student, taken logic |
| oxford cleric | extremely skinny |
| oxford cleric | had a set of 20 books of Aristotle's philosophy |
| oxford cleric | got money for books in exchange for prayer |
| oxford cleric | would gladly learn and gladly teach |
| sergeant at law | had been Justice of Assize |
| sergeant at law | though there was nowhere one so busy as he, he was less busy than he seemed to be |
| sergeant at law | he knew every judgement, case, and crime ever recorded since King William's time |
| franklin | riding with seargeant |
| franklin | rich land owner |
| franklin | white beard, rosy red face |
| franklin | dipped his bread in wine |
| franklin | snowed meat and drink at his house |
| franklin | raised his own animals for food |
| franklin | woe to the cook unless the sauce was hot |
| franklin | dagger and a little purse of silk |
| franklin | sherriff |
| gray eyes, meat on her bones, gap teeth | three things men would look for in a woman |
| guildsmen | 5 men and their wives |
| guildsmen | belong to the same fraternal trade organization and dress in the same livery |
| guildsmen | knives, girdles, and pouches made of silver |
| guildsmen | wives are with them and complain that people don't call them "Madam" |
| guildsmen | everything was for show |
| cook | rode with guildsmen |
| cook | could tell what kind of ale it was just by tasting it |
| cook | could roast and seethe and broil and fry |
| cook | he had an ulcer on his knee |
| skipper | owned his own barge |
| The Maudelayne | name of the Skipper's barge |
| skipper | rode a farmer's horse as best he could |
| skipper | wore a woolen gown to his knee |
| skipper | dagger on a lanyard hung from his neck under his arm |
| skipper | tan skin |
| skipper | Pirate |
| skipper | stole wine |
| doctor | clothes were blood red |
| astronomy | on what did the doctor base his knowledge of medicine? |
| doctor | knew the cause of every malady |
| doctor | all his apothecaries in a tribe were ready with the drugs he would prescribe and each made money from the others guile they had been friendly for a goodish while |
| doctor | had a love of gold |
| wife of bath | somewhat deaf and older |
| wife of bath | towards the altar steps in front of her, and if indeed they did, so wrath was she as to be quite put out of charity |
| wife of bath | fine handkercheifs |
| wife of bath | ten pound hats |
| wife of bath | scarlet red hose |
| wife of bath | bold face, red in hue |
| wife of bath | she's had 5 husbands, all at the church door, apart from other company in youth |
| wife of bath | went on nice trips to places like rome to find rich men |
| wife of bath | gap teeth |
| wife of bath | thick hips, heels spurred sharply |
| wife of bath | knew the remedies for loves mischances |
| parson | knew Christ's gospel and would preach it |
| parson | hated cursing to extort a fee, nay rather he preferred beyond a doubt giving to poor parishioners |
| parson | find sufficiency in little |
| parson | payed calls in sickness or in grief |
| parson | staff in hand |
| parson | parishioners were his sheep |
| parson | "if gold rust, what will iron do?" |
| parson | stayed at home, didn't join Brotherhood |
| parson | a lot like Christ |
| plowman | parson's brother |
| plowman | loved God and his neighbor |
| plowman | helped the poor with no return even though he was poor as well |
| plowman | payed tithes on what he had and what he made |
| miller | grinds the grain |
| miller | 224 pounds |
| miller | win the ram at any wrestling show |
| miller | his beard, like any sow or fox, was red and wide like a spade |
| miller | his nose displayed a wart on which there stood a tuft of hair red as the bristles in the old sow's ear |
| miller | nostrils were as black as they were wide |
| miller | sword and buckler |
| miller | mouth like a furnace |
| miller | a thumb of gold |
| miller | hood of blue and a white coat |
| miller | played bagpipes |
| manciple | now isn't it a marvel of God's grace that an illiterate fellow can outpace the wisdom of a heap of learned men? |
| manciple | had more than 30 masters |
| manciple | in any legal case there was to try; and yet this ___________ could wipe their eyes |
| reeve | old and choleric and thin |
| reeve | his beard was shaven closely to the skin |
| reeve | his shorn hair came abruptly to a stop above his ears |
| reeve | his legs were lean like sticks |
| reeve | no auditor could gain a point on him |
| reeve | no one had ever caught him in arrears |
| reeve | feared like the plague he was, by those beneath |
| reeve | used his money to bribe his lord |
| reeve | he was a carpenter of first rate skill |
| reeve | had a dapple-gray horse named Scot |
| reeve | bluish overcoat, rather long |
| reeve | rusty blade |
| summoner | his face on fire, like a cherubin, for he had carbuncles |
| summoner | narrow eyes, black scabby brows, thin beard |
| summoner | children were afraid when he appeared |
| summoner | garlic he loved, and onions too, and leeks, and drinking strong red wine till all was hazy. then he would shout and jabber as if crazy, and would't speak a word except in Latin |
| summoner | can teach a jay to call out "Walter" better than the Pope |
| pardoner | rode with the summoner |
| pardoner | just back from visiting the court of rome. he loudly sang "Come hither, love, come home!" |
| pardoner | had hair as yellow as wax, hanging down smoothly like a hank of flax. in driblets fell his locks behind his head down to his shoulders which they overspread |
| pardoner | the hood inside his wallet had been stowed |
| pardoner | bulging eyeballs, like a hare |
| pardoner | he's sewed a holy relic on his cap |
| pardoner | he had the same small voice a goat has got. his chin no beard had harbored, nor would harbor, smoother than ever chin was left by barber. I judge he was a gelding, or a mare |
| pardoner | for in his trunk he had a pillow case which he asserted was Our Lady's veil |
| pardoner | he said he had a gobbet of the sail St. Peter had the time when he made bold to walk the waves, till Jesus Christ took hold |
| pardoner | he had a cross of metal set with stones and, in a glass, a rubble of pigs bones |
| pardoner | in one short day, in money down, he drew more than the parson in a month or two |
| pardoner | made monkeys of the priest and congregation |
| pardoner | best of all he sang an offertory |
| pardoner | and (well he could) win silver from the crowd. Thats why he sang so merrily and loud |
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