Anselm of Canterbury

“And she was known as Madam Eglantyne” (125). Throughout the nun’s section in the canterbury tales prolog we come to find out this quote sums up the nun quite nicely. This line encompasses everything the nun is, elegant, well mannered, and caring. One of the things the nun feels is important is, to be seen among the travelers as elegant. She shows this in the way she eats by not letting her hands get dirty, and in the way she sings hymns. She never dips her hand in too deep in sauce and never…

Life during the medieval period was either great or very difficult. This depended on a person's family history and their classification. Ruling, clergy, middle, and peasant were the four main types of classifications during the medieval times. People in the ruling and the clergy class usually had the best of everything, so their lives were great. Life was very difficult for the middle- class people and the peasants. Most of them did not have much at all. Many peasants would go days without…

Around 1310, Roman de Fauvel, attributed to Gervais de Bus, began circulating through Europe. This extended medieval poem split into two books is full of symbolism and mockery of higher institutions and the government. This story includes a visual satire that is accompanied by beautiful, carefully chosen, polyphonic music. Roman de Fauvel is basically a symbol of everything wrong with France in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The two books can be described as underlyingly…

Honesty is more than telling the truth, it means having integrity. The pilgrim who shows these traits the most is the Knight. The Knight "followed chivalry/Truth, honor, generousness, and courtesy"(Lines 45-46). He does great things for his kingdom and the people in it. He even remains humble in spite of those achievements. Similarly to the Knight, the Parson is a respectable person. "He [is] an honest worker, good and true/Living in peace and perfect charity"(Lines 142-143). The Parson helps…

The Miller's Prologue and Tale Summary After the Knight's story, the Host calls upon the Monk to tell a story that will rival the Knight's tale for nobility of purpose. But the Miller, who is very drunk, announces that he will tell a story about a carpenter. The Reeve, Oswald, objects because he was once a carpenter. Chaucer then warns the reader that this tale might be a bit vulgar, but he must tell all the stories because a prize is at stake. Thus, the Miller begins his tale. John, an old and…

Chaucer "Of small coral about hir arm she bar a pair of bedes gauded all with greene, an theron heeng a brooch of gold ful sheene, n which ther was a writen crowned a, and after, amor vincit omnia" From what I've read and learnt in class loosely trasnlates to "Made out of coral beads all colored green, And from it hung a brooch of golden sheen On which there was an A crowned with a wreath, With Amor vincit omnia beneath." To first understand this quote we must know what genre it is to…

The author's portrayal of women is ever so prevalent in the “The wife of bath’s prologue”. We can find Geoffrey Chaucer’s view on women by analyzing the female characters he wrote about. The Wife of Bath is a very interesting character, she seems to be a very nice person, but can not stay in a relationship. For example she has been married many times, had kids etc. We get an example “Of tribulation in the married life In which I’ve been an expert as a wife, That is to say, myself have been the…

The Wife of Bath is a very important pilgrim in Chaucer’s tales. She was especially relevant when Chaucer’s work was published, and she is still relevant in today’s society. The Wife of Bath’s personality traits, and her outlook on life are easily found in women across the nation today. Even today, in the twenty-first century, we still encounter similar controversies related to gender and sexual morality, just like the Wife of Bath did during her time. Since we have come so far in other aspects…

This tale is a huge contrast to the Wife of Bath tale. Unlike the Wife of Bath, this woman is willing to except that the man is one hundred percent in control of the entire relationship. In fact it was very common in the Middle Ages to have the woman protagonist go through a mental breakdown. With this tale in particular it goes through a woman who goes through the mental confliction by the man who was supposed to protect her. Griselda is supposed to represent the ideal wife. She is a faithful…

This article analyzes the subconscious desires within the Wife of Bath and the Clerk in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales by comparing and contrasting the characters' apparent goals with the consequences of their tales' endings. At first glance, The motivations of these characters seems clear; the wife tells a tale that demonstrates woman's desire of mastery over the husband and the Clerk wants to refute her point by offering an example of a perfectly submissive wife. However, due to their…