The Middle Ages

The Crusades: The two parties that was fighting in the Canterbury Tales was the muslims and the christians. And the Crusades was just an extension of that. It lasted several hundred years and started in the 11th century.Every crusader took an vow that he or she was committed to fulfil as a penance.


Murder of Thomas A Becket: In the Murder of Thomas A Becket, Becket did not agree with Henry being against the pope. Becket and Henry already argued, they argued about how much power church courts should have . Henry and Becket came to this agreement about Becket becoming archbishop again in 1170. Becket and Henry fell out again and Becket was being mean and start chastising Henry all in public. Henry I guess got fed up and he sent his people to kill Becket. I guess he felt bad and tryed to show he was sorry by walking barefoot from London to Canterbury.


Magna Carter: The Magna Carter is a document that states that people have individual rights anf that there are things that some people have that the king cannot control. The Magna Carter was written by artistocrats. The document had years later became the basis for the english constitutional law.



The Black Death: The disease "Bubonic Plague" is where the name black death came from. It is the nick name for the disease. The disease is very contagious. The disease was spread by infected rats and fleas. This disease reminds me of the deadly disease that exist nowadays which is HIV. People who had contracted bubonic plague only had like a ten percent chance of living. The disease is so deadly hat you could die within seve days of contracting the disease.



Madam Eglantyne: She seemed to me to be very classy, beautiful, and popular. I also got the impression that she was beautiul and well-educated.

"And well she sang a service, with a fine intoning through her nose, as was most seemly, and she spoke daintly in French, extremely, after the school of Stratford-atte-Bowe."



Squire: To me Squire seemed to be handsome and very romantic. They described him in te story like he was a real gentleman. Cool, calm, and collective laid back type.

"He could make songs and poems and recite, knew how to joust and dance, to draw and write , he loved so hotly that till dawn grew pale ."



Monk: He was adventorous ad always like hunting. Hunting was all he really did and doing that really excited a man like that.

"Hunting a hare or riding at a fence was all his fun, he spared for no expense."



Merchant: I personally think that the merchant thinks highly of himself and is arrongant. He isn't perfect but he tries to give off the impression that he is.

"Forking beard and motley dress, high on his horse he sat, upon his head a Flemish beaver hat and on his feet daintly buckled boots. He old of his opinions,and pursuits and how he never lost."

Doctor of Medicine- Physician cared for his patients and saved many of them.

"To speak of medicine and surgery.He cared for and saved a patient many times."

Friar- A very festive,he spoke very well and was like by all.

"A very festive man.Equal his gossip and well-spoken speech."

Franklin- Franklin was a good provider. He maintained a stable household.

"His house was never short of food and pies."

The Yeoman- A hunter and a woods man that broke away from being a servant

"No more servants, for he chose so to ride"

Knight-He was known as a gentlemen for being honest, strong man.

Clerk- The clerk was a slim man and also a philosopher from Oxford. "As lean was his horse as is a rake."

4. The Prioress- This story to me crazy but it also was kind of touching.The feudalism system is what the people in Prioress lived by. Under lords and the reach lived peasents who were most often christian.There was a young christian boy who lived with his mom who was a widow.The christian boy worshiped Mary the mother of Jesus and he learned a song by the name of Alma Redemptions.The young boy everywhere he went would sing the song. One day he was singing the song walking through the Jewish quaters.On day while walking through Jewish quaters the boy was singing a song and the Jewels felt like he was being disrespectful and just killed him. His mother looked all over the place for him and eventually found him dead. They prepared the boys funreal and the ceremony stated. The boy then rose explained his death and contiued to sing the Alma Redemption.