Chaucer portrays the Physician as well-educated and cunning, greedy, and a bit boastful. If the pilgrims have heard that there’s ”none like him in this world, no competition / to speak of medicine and surgery” (lines 412-413), they’ve probably heard it from the Physician himself. What is a description of the Doctor in The Canterbury …
The Manciple is in the trade class, which takes up the middle and bottom of the pyramid. Who is the Manciple in the Canterbury Tales? The Manciple’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The Manciple, or steward, tells a story about the origin of the crow, based on …
Kent, one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, probably geographically coterminous with the modern county, famous as the site of the first landing of Anglo-Saxon settlers in Britain, as the kingdom that received the first Roman mission to the Anglo-Saxons, and for its distinctive social and administrative customs. What was Kent called in Anglo-Saxon times? …
A Skipper is a master or ‘Captain’ of any kind of fishing, small shipping, or pleasure boat. What social class is the skipper? The Skipper (or Shipman) in The Canterbury Tales stands out as a character because he is a straight-forward, working class man who lacks the hypocrisy of many other characters who have more …
The Manciple is an ironic character because he constantly cites classical lore and legend, such as that found in Ovid’s Metamorphosis, and he overuses rhetorical devices as well to further overstate his education. However, he states that he is ”an unlearned man” and is not well-educated. What was the Manciple in Canterbury Tales? In medieval …
King Arthur (Welsh: Brenin Arthur, Cornish: Arthur Gernow, Breton: Roue Arzhur) was a legendary Celtic Briton who, according to medieval histories and romances, was leader of the Celtic Britons in battles against Saxon invaders of Britain in the late 5th and early 6th centuries. Is King Arthur a Briton? King Arthur is a legendary British …
Cantium. Julius Caesar called Kent, Cantium, and the pre-Roman local tribe the Cantiaci subsequently become a civitas (unit of local administration) of Roman Britain, based at Durovernum Cantiacorum (modern Canterbury). What was Kent called in Anglo-Saxon times? The Kingdom of the Kentish (Old English: Cantwara rīce; Latin: Regnum Cantuariorum), today referred to as the Kingdom …
For years, scholars of medieval history have explained that the term Anglo-Saxon has a long history of misuse, is inaccurate and is generally used in a racist context. Based on surviving texts, early inhabitants of the region more commonly called themselves englisc and angelcynn. What were the Anglo-Saxons called? The people we call Anglo-Saxons were …
The tales (mostly written in verse, although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. Why are the characters traveling to Canterbury? Many devout English pilgrims set …
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Theseus captures Emily, along with her sister Theseus, during his siege of Scythia. Who was Emily in the Knights tale? Keeley HawesThe names of the characters Palamon and Arcite are changed to Paul (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Ace (John Simm), and the story was moved to a modern prison setting where the two men battle for …
