Canterbury Tails Prologue Quiz Flashcards

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Palmers

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Pilgrims who carried palm branches as a token that they had visited the holy land

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Frame story

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A frame story exist when the story is told within a narrative setting or frame, Creating a story within a story

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Penance

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And outperform to make amends for one sins

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Absolution

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Formal forgiveness for one’s sins

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Shrift

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Confession

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Tithes

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Standard payments made to the church

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The knight

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A warrior who has fought in the Crusades, the military campaigns of medieval Christians against the Muslims

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The Squire

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The knights son and attendant

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The yeoman

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A master woodsman serving the knight

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The prioress

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A nun ranking just below the head none

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The monk

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A member of a religious order who also served as the head of his monastery

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The friar

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A preacher who travels about, begging for donations

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Merchant

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A seemingly wealthy businessman and

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The Oxford clerk

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A Poor scholar educated at Oxford university for the clergy

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The Man of the law

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A lawyer appointed by the king to serve as the judge of the traveling law court

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The Franklin

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A wealthy landowner

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The skipper

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A master of his vessel who hails from the country of dark mouth

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The doctor

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Respected medical man

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The wife of Bath

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A widow from the town of bath

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The parson

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A parish priest from the rural parish

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The plowman

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A farmer who is the parsons Brother

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The Miller

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The operator of a grain mill

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The reeve

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A manager of a wealthy landowners estate

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Summoner

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A petty officer who sites persons to appear before the church courts

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The pardoner

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A minor church man or lay man who sells indulgences in return for donations

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The host

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The owner of the tabard Inn where the pilgrims assemble

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Choleric

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Angry or stubborn

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Melancholic

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Thoughtful or gloomy

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Sanguine

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Courageous and hopeful

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Phlegmatic

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Dull plotting

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Roman Catholic Church

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A powerful institution in the Western Europe, The church with the center of daily life in every village in town

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Church bells

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Announce the time for work, meals, rest and for mass, the workshop service

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The divine comedy

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The Italian poet Dante alighieris literacy masterpiece

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The church universities and monasteries

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Center of learning or scholars and monks wrote translated and copied manuscripts

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Gothic cathedrals

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Architectural marvel of the age

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Selling of indulgences

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Issued by the pope or said to reduce or cancel the punishment in the next life for sins forgiven here on earth

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Of religious offices to the highest bidder

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Resulted in some clergy who were in moral, uneducated or even illiterate