The middle ages

1.The Crusades: wars had waged by the European Christian's against the Muslim's,with Jerusalem and the holy land as the prize.the Europeans failed to hold Jerusalem,they benefited enormously from contact with eastern mathematics,astronomy,architecture, and crafts made possible the rich.the crusades exposed Christian Europe to the middle East's sophisticated civilization.

• The Murder of Thomas a Becket: Thomas a Norman, had risen to great power as chancellor(prime minister) under his friend king Henry II. at that time, all Christian's Belonged to the Catholic Church.

• The Magna Carta: democratic tendencies in England was the signing of the Magna Carta by king john in 1215,at Runnymede.the vicious but pragmatic John was strongly backed by the pope, but the English barons forced him to sign the document.the signing was a defeat for central papal power .but the Magna Carta Later became the basis for English Constitutional law,in which such rights as trial by jury and legislative taxation were established .
  The Black Death: The Black death , or Bubonic Plague, Which struck England in 1348-1349,delivered another blow to feudalism.by that time king Henry VII's 1485 marriage reconciled the warring houses of York and lancaster, the middle ages were at its ending point .The Black death caused a labor Shortage,leading to the serf''s freedom and to the end of feudalism.king henry was a strong man that began the tudor line that would lead to Elizabeth1. and at that time the England's Renaissance was about to begin. .

2.The Knight: was a gentlemen, he had honour, freedom, and courtesy.he loved chivalry and honoured everywhere for worthiness.he was At Alexandria winning battle,often put in the place of honour.

• EX:He was a truly perfect, noble knight.
  But now, to tell you all of his array,
  His steeds were good, but he was not gaily dressed.

• 2.Squire: is an lover, and a well known bachelor. he was very active, and had a great deal of strength, twenty something years old.had locks well curled, as if they 'd laid in press.

• EX:He'd ridden sometime with the cavalry
  In Flanders, in Artois, and Picardy,
  And conducted well within that little space
  In hope to win thereby his lady's grace.

• 3. The Prioress: is an nun, she was called Madam Eglantine.she sung the service devine,through her nose.she spoke french fairly and fluently.

• EX:She wore a small coral trinket on her arm
  A string of beads and gauded all with green;
  And therefrom hung a brooch of golden sheen
  Whereon there was engraved a crowned "A,"
  And under, Amor vincit omnia.

• 4. The Monk: hunting was a monk favorite sport to do. a monk has very many excellent horses. when he rode men, his wife hear the jingling in the whistling in the wind.

• EX:He was an easy man in penance-giving
  He knew how to gain a fair living;
  For to a begging friar, money given
  Is sign that any man has been well shriven.

• 6. The Shipman:he was a sailor that was living far west. he was from a town called Dartmouth.he road a carthorse in a gown,Of thick woolen cloth that reached unto the knee.

• EX:But as for craft, to calculate his tides,
  His currents and the dangerous watersides,
  His harbours, and his moon, his pilotage,
  There was none such from Hull to far Carthage.

• 7. The Parson: he was very poor, and religious. but he was rich in holy thought and work.he was truly sought to preach.

• EX: Wide was his parish, houses far asunder,
  But never did he fail, for rain or thunder,
  In sickness, or in sin, or any state,
  To visit the farthest, regardless their financial state,
  Going by foot, and in his hand, a stave.

• 8.The Miller: he was a strong fellow that was very known.he was big of brawn and big of bone.
  EX:He was stoutly built, broad and heavy;
  He lifted each door from its hinges, that easy,
  Or break it through, by running, with his head.

• 9.The Manciple: was from the inner temple, to whom all buyers might think of as an example to learn the art of buying victuals.
  EX:Of masters had he more than three times ten,
  Who were in law expert and curious;
  Whereof there were a dozen in that house
  Fit to be stewards of both rent and land
  Of any lord in England who would stand
  To make him live by his own wealth and fee,
  In honour.

• 10.The Reeve: he was a slender choleric man. who shaved his beard as close as ever he can.his was cropped around his ears;his head, the top was cut alike a pulpiteer's.

• EX:Very rich and well he was provided all secretly,
  He knew well how to please his lord subtly,
  By giving him, or lending, of his own goods,
  And so got thanked - but yet got coats and hoods.

• 11.The Summoner: who had fiery-red,cherubic face,all pimpled it was. his eyes was narrow as hot he was,and lecherous.he also had black scabby brows and scanty beard.

• EX: There was no mercury, sulphur, or litharge,
  No borax, ceruse, tartar, could discharge,
  Nor ointment that could cleanse enough, or bite,
  To free him of his boils and pimples white,
  Nor of the knobs located on his cheeks.

• 12.The Physician: he was a doctor with medicine. u could call him for any thing back then. he would tell wheather or not your going to die or not.

• EX:Prepared he was, with his apothecaries,
  To send him drugs and all electuaries;
  By mutual aid much gold they'd always won-
  Their friendship was a thing not new begun.

• 13.The Wife of Bath: she had a skilled hand at making clothes.her head dresses of finest weave and ground.bold was her face, and fair and red of hue.

• EX:Upon a pacing horse easily she sat,
  Wearing a large wimple, and over all a hat
  As broad as is a buckler or a targe;
  An overskirt was tucked around her buttocks large,
  And her feet spurred sharply under that.
  

3. The tale is basicly talkin about how a knight takes a young woman virginty by forcing the young to have sex. for his punishment he leaves his wife(the Queen). he wanted the queen to take his life for what he has done to the young woman and to the queen. the queen had came up with an conclusion by telling the knight to take a journay for 12 months and a day.she also told him while he is out on his journay, he should think about one of the things that a woman desire. it was some kind of home work he had to accumplish for a year and a day.he didnt really get the answer to his question while he was on his journay . on the last day he saw a group of woman dancing around, at that moment he was thinking that maybe the women could help him find his answer to his question before he left going back home.but when he got them the vanished in from a blink of an eye.then there was an old woman leaning on the ground. he decided to talk to the woman about his problem he had. after he told her the problem, she made him give her his hand and to swear to the old woman, to what she require next and he did. then she told him the answer that wanted. He finaly went back to the Queen and gave the answer she was looking for. the old that was leaning on the ground told the queen that she told him the answer to his question. and the she made him promise her that he would do the next thing that she would tell him to do. the old woman ask him to do somthing for her and he ask what was it, and she ask him would he marry her, and he did. at the wedding he was very upset and the wedding night he was mad at the fact that he married an old woman. he changed the whole idea about the woman being old. at the end the old woman turned into an beautiful woman and they lived happily ever after.

4. the piece that i have chosed it reflected the middle ages writting for ex: loyalty, poetry, romance.

• Some of the most familiar figures from the Middle Ages were knights who were loyal protectors of the king.
• The adoration of the lady was meant as a means of self-imporvement for the knights, and they would spend their idle hours composing poetry and songs of praise. This gave birth to a new form of poetry: the romance