Description:
- Highest in social rank
- Travels with the Yeoman
- Father to the Squire
- "The ideal of a medieval Christian man-at-arms."
- Brave
- Experienced
- Prudent
- Participated in at least 15 crusades
- Admired by Chaucer
- Loved the idea of chilvary
- Distinguished
Description:
- Respectful to his father the Knight
- Youthful
- Handsome
- Loves dancing and courting
- Loves to love
Description:
- Named Hubert
- Wanton
- Immoral
- Hard of heart
- Slick-talker
- Ladies man
- Scammer
- Drunk
- Doesn't care about the poor
- Accepts money from confessors, the poor, and widows
- Intimate
- Knew the taverns well in every town
- Knew every inn-keeper and barmaind better than lepers and beggars
- Wears expensive clothing
- Merry
- Noble
Description:
- Sailor
- "Sent his prisoners home; they walked the plank."
- Understands the sea
- Knows the ports well
- Good at his job
- Owns The Maudelayne
- Vested in his job, despite his other shortcomings
Description:
- Only servant to the Knight
- Forester - Keeps and protects the forest
- Fashionable
- Wore a green coat and hood
- Neat and clean
- Organized
- Carried lots of weapons such as his bow and arrow
- Robin hood like character
- Tan
Description:
- Named Lady Eglantine
- Young
- Pretty
- Didn't speak French well
- Courtly behavior
- Taught in England
- Well-mannered
- Wore nice/fancy clothing
- More interested in her appearance rather than spirituality
- Loved animals
- Two-faced
- Wore a brooch
- Charitable
- Compassionate
- Modest
- Quiet
Description:
- Studied and based his medicine on astronomy
- Recognized as a lower class than the cook
- "Watched his patients closely..."
- A talker
- Practiced medicine that taught the need for balance of fire, air, water, earth and four humors to avoid illnesses
- Depended on other apothecaries for money making
- "Well-versed" in famous medical experts
- Balanced diet, but no Bible reading
- Loved gold
Description:
- Had 5 husbands
- Gapped teeth
- Deaf in one ear
- Wore nice clothing
- Lived in a town called Bath
- Great cloth maker
- Imperious
- Bold
- Brave
- Fearless
- Confident
- Medieval feminist
- Emphasis on the color red
- Good rider
- Loves to travel
Description:
- Student
- Loves to study, read and learn
- Social outcast
- Hasn't found a good balance of life and learning
- Skinny
Description:
- Brother to the Plowman
- Good-hearted
- Holy-minded
- Pays his tithes to the Church
- Leads a good Christian life
- Member of the peasant class
- True follower of Christ
- Shepherd
- Scholar
- Teacher of the Gospel
- Preferred giving and service
- Responsible
Pilgrims of The Canterbury Tales