Nobility

In the dining halls of noble houses, servants came out of the kitchens with steaming platters revealing roasted chicken, vegetable stew, and freshly-caught fish baked in a cream sauce. Such were the meals of the Renaissance, the beginning of a new age of creativity and culinary innovation. From these Renaissance innovations came practices that inspired modern cooking traditions throughout Europe and North America. The English hunted animals for food, like the rest of the world. English farmers…

Chaucer suggests that the ability of people to understand someone of the opposite sex is misleading or blinded by traditional ranking, yet it is possible to be understood. This is shown in “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” by having a knight travel to find “What is the thing that women most desire?”. In The Men We Carry In Our Minds by Scott Russell Sanders, Sanders expresses how his view of women changed while discussions with his friend, Anneke. News Coverage of a Woman's Right Campaign from New York…

Throughout history, there have been several pieces of literature that are remembered for their educational and recreational value. One of these highly acclaimed pieces of work is The Canterbury Tales. Geoffrey Chaucer composed a thrilling frame tale that includes multiple stories within the plot, which encompass several different values that were essential to have when this book was written. Chaucer included 20 different stories into one, with drastic variations of moral and ethical values.…

Most commonly, people of a higher class, such as nobility, merchants and clergy wore luxurious, silk tunics and bright dyes, conveying that the quality of a person’s clothing reflected the wealth of the wearer. For example, the upper class wore good quality clothing, which associated them with wealth. Even…

Life during the Elizabethan Era was less sophisticated than today, and the life expectancy rates were low due to illness and malnutrition. For the upper class, with its more varied diet, life might be longer, but the poor suffered nutritionally due to money shortages. For these reasons, during the Elizabethan Era, food, nutrition, and accessibility were completely based on social class. Although food is for nutrition and diet, during the Elizabethan Era the rich ate out of luxury. For example…

the crime, but realizes their raft has gone missing. All in all, for an uncivilized young boy to not only recognize the evil about to take place and avoid it as quickly as possible, but also planning to report it to the police truly displays the nobility Huckleberry Finn…

In chapter two, Boal brings to bare the changes in theater during the transition from the medieval, feudal period and the renaissance, with the rise of a bourgeois middle class. He states that the bourgeois rose up due to their individual prowess and practicality, leading to the rise of the exceptional individual protagonist in theater. Machiavelli's plays propound the value of intellect separated from morality, through which characters get what they want. He talks about Machiavelli and…

Flawed But Not Forgotten Every human has a flaw, but some can be the cause of their own demise. The flaw of Marcus Brutus in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare causes his own downfall as the tragedy unravels. Brutus is the tragic hero because he has all of the necessary traits a tragic hero needs, according to Aristotle. Aristotle defines a tragic hero as a man of noble stature or high position who causes his own destruction for a greater cause or principle. A flaw cannot be…

The Lion proved to be Yvain’s vassal and proved complete obedience and devotion to Yvain: “showing his nobility and goodness, he began to make it clear that he surrendered himself to Yvain…and bowed his face toward the earth. And then he knelt again, and his face was wet all over with humble tears” (102 -103). In this case, the Lion is Yvain’s vassal and he…

Following the Napoleonic Wars of the early 19th century, government leaders met at the Congress of Vienna (1814-15) to redraw the boundaries of Europe. In Central Europe, a confederation of thirty-eight German states replaced the long-standing Holy Roman Empire, which had been dissolved through Napoleon’s conquests. In the prelude to the Revolutions of 1848, the political, economic, and social orders of this new German Confederation became subjects of great debate and varied opinions among…