pilgrim chart

Pilgrim Transportation Major Physical Traits/ and Distinguishing Features

Follies/Vices/Negative Qualities

Positive Traits /Virtues/Attributes

Chaucer (narrator)

Knight

Squire (knight’s son) 20 years old

Yeoman ( a forester or outdoorsman) also an attendant in a royal household

Nun (also called a Prioress, a nun corresponding in rank to a prior or second highest in a monastery where an abbot is the highest)Monk

The Canterbury Tales Pilgrim Chart (from the “Prologue”)

The Friar (Hubert) a limiter, he is limited to the area where he can beg

Merchant (a member of the wealthy middle-class

Oxford Cleric (a student)

Sergeant of Law ( an attorney)

The Franklin (a land owner: a freeholder of non noble birth, extensive holdings

The guildsman (haberdasher, carpenter, dyer, weaver and carpet maker)

Cook

Skipper ( the shipman)

The Doctor (of physic)

The Wife of Bath

The Parson (he practiced what he preached)

The Plowman

The Miller (Robin is his name)

The Manciple (steward at a law school)

The Reeve (the manager of an estate)

The Summoner (his job is to sum sinners to church court trials)

The Pardoner (sells pardons)

Harry Bailey (the host)