Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
1343-1400
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Welcome, my knight, my pees, my suffisance.

• All consonants are sounded.
• Vowels
• a a father
• e a they
• i, y e machine
• o o note
• u, ou, oo goose
• ow
• III. Sometimes a final e is sounded when needed
  for the meter.

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Major Events of the Late Middle Ages
--The Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
--The Black Death (began in 1348)
--The Peasants Revolt (1381)
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Dante
Petrarch
Boccaccio
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Westminster Abbey
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Poets Corner
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Canterbury Cathedral
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St. Thomas a Becket
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The Knight
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The Nun
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The Monk
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The Clerk
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Oxford
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The Doctor
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Humor Excess of . . . Characteristics
Melancholic black bile
depressed (cold, dry) (from
kidneys)
Choleric yellow bile irritable,
angry, (hot, dry) (from liver) hot
tempered Sanguine blood
generous, kind, (hot, moist)
good appetite Phlegmatic
phlegm sluggishness, (cold, moist)
dullness
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The Parson
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The Plowman
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The Pardoner
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The Wife of Bath
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Extra Credit (five points)
Attend the presentation by Arun Gandhi, grandson
of Mohandas Gandhi, Wednesday, February 11, at
130 p.m. in Powers Auditorium in Eoff Hall.
Afterwards, write at least 100 words giving your
impressions of Mr. Gandhi.
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