merchant

Question 1

Boccaccio’s Decameron:

Answer 1

various tales of love from the erotic to the tragic. Tales of wit, practical jokes, and life lessons contribute to the mosaic.’

Question 2

Ackroyd (women)

Answer 2

‘Chaucer seems preoccupied with the sorrows of the female and their revenge in the most bawdy and explicit manner’

Question 3

Fabliau:

Answer 3

a metrical tale, typically a bawdily humorous one.

Question 4

‘the Marriage group’ Ackroyd

Answer 4

‘Some of the narratives have been classified as ‘the Marriage group’ concerned with the battle for supremacy between husband and wife’

Question 5

Philippa Chaucer

Answer 5

all the attributes of a professional couple, what a future generation would call a career marriage in around 1366. They had a son, Thomas and a daughter, Elizabeth’
‘Philippa Chaucer died in 1387. Chaucer never mentioned her death in any public way,

Question 6

‘Cecily Champain

Answer 6

‘Cecily Champain accused Chaucer of ‘raptus’ which may have meant rape, kidnapping or inappropriate seizure. Chaucer called the mayor of London as a witness. In 1380 she released Chaucer from all legal actions, presumably settling out of court. There may have been a child, Lewis born in 1381’

Question 7

Ackroyd (merchant)

Answer 7

‘the whole notion of authority seems to be parodied in this poem concerned with unsteady fortune and false reputation’

Question 8

Black death

Answer 8

’30% of the British population died in the Black Death epidemic of 1348. London was worst affected but Chaucer was in Southampton in order to collect taxes upon wine’

Question 9

Ackroyd (Chaucer)

Answer 9

Chaucer is in love with spectacle of every description, and with external life of humankind.

Question 10

Chaucer’s Granddaughter Alice

Answer 10

In 1414 at the age of about ten, Chaucer’s Granddaughter Alice was married to Sir John Phelip. (He was in his mid 30’s.)

Question 11

Women

Answer 11

womens goals were expected to be focussed towards children.
As women had little opportunities outside of children and marriage, they would turn to church as an escape.
legal age, 12 for girls and 14 for boys.

Question 12

Marriage

Answer 12

most marriages were political arrangements.
Women were traded like produce in the marriage market
And was an exchange between household Patriarchs

Question 13

Pamela King

Answer 13

‘Once married, a woman had the same legal status as her husband’s domestic animals’

Question 14

Sheila Innes

Answer 14

‘The relationship between men and women is one of inevitable conflicts’

Question 15

Derek Pearsall x3

Answer 15

‘An extend mock-encomium marriage’
‘Marriage in terms of purchase and commodity’
‘Here is morality, and the traditional sanction of matrimony, in a distorting mirror’

Question 16

Meally

Answer 16

‘The financial reality of medieval marriage; the woman was a marketable commodity valued according to her physical beauty.’
‘Chaucer spends 125 lines glorifying the ‘paradys’ and ‘honey swete of marriage. The fact that it is laced with imagery of burden, bondage and entrapment(‘under this yok of marriage yoounde’) further confuses the reader.