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Jumping ahead a few hundred years… Intro to The Canterbury Tales and the Medieval Period

Jumping ahead a few hundred years… Intro to The Canterbury Tales and the Medieval Period. Development of the English Language. Development of the English Language.

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Jumping ahead a few hundred years… Intro to The Canterbury Tales and the Medieval Period

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  1. Jumping ahead a few hundred years… Intro to The Canterbury Tales and the Medieval Period

  2. Development of the English Language

  3. Development of the English Language 1050 – Beowulf– Old English (Germanic language from Angles, Saxons and Jutes): influenced by Latin, Celtic, Scottish, Pictish, Danish, Norse 1066 – William the Conqueror takes England – major addition of French, more Latin, Greek 1300’s – Geoffrey Chaucer – Middle English

  4. Divisions of Medieval society: bellatores (“warriors” royalty, gentry) oratores (“pray-ers” religious, holy orders) laboratores (“workers” middle and lower class)

  5. Geoffrey Chaucer – 1343? – 1400 • Born into the Laboratores class • Father was a merchant • Hired as a royal page (personal assistant and secretary) • Soldier for King Edward III • Diplomat for King Richard II • Royal clerk for King Henry IV • Writer and poet as a hobby • Traveled to many places in Western and Southern Europe as • an officer of the king’s court • Educated and very skilled in courtesy (royal manners) • Buried in Westminister Abbey in the Poets’ Corner

  6. Knight Squire Yeoman Nun (Prioress) Monk Friar Merchant Oxford Cleric (Student) Sergeant at the Law Franklin Haberdasher, Dyer, Carpenter, Weaver, Carpet-maker (these five are together) Cook Skipper Doctor Wife of Bath Parson Plowman Miller Manciple Reeve Summoner Pardoner Host (Harry Bailey) Chaucer These are the characters in the Prologue. You will be taking notes on these each night and in class!

  7. Approximately 100 miles one way London Canterbury

  8. Canterbury Cathedral

  9. These are pictures of St. Thomas à Becket, who was martyred in 1170. He was assassinated by four knights of King Henry II and is interred in Canterbury Cathedral.

  10. “Science” and “Psychology” of the Medieval Period sanguine – happy, friendly, fun-loving melancholic – creative, sad, moody choleric – dominant, angry, ambitious phlegmatic – calm, kind, unemotional

  11. Whan that Aprill with his shourëssootë The droghte of March hath percëd to the rootë And bathëd every veyne in swichlicour Of which vertuengendrëd is the flour

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