The Cooks Tale in Mid Evil Society

The cook's tale is strongly based story on the lowest levels of the system of fuedalism. The apprentice had the chacne to learn how to make a living for himself. He, being at the lowest ranks that society had to offer to decided to turn to beer, a cleaner drink than water in his day.
The apprentice is what is called a serf in the system of feudalism, not allowed to travel freely and confined to his lord's land to work for his life's entirety. The only thing he had to look forward to was the occasional festival and of course the ever night drinking binge. This I imagine was strongly tempting for every serf and the apprentice often found many a friend to drink with every night of the week.
On a much wider view of the apprentice's life is may seem very good. A knight fighting an army of crazed muslims on the middle east for Christaindom might think that his life, though dull and unfulfilling may be seem very peaceful and quaint.

The Cook's Tale Response

The story is based around an apprentice who lives outside of a town. He has lots of spirt, loves to dance, and is a very keen of alcohol. He takes more time in his apprenticeship at the tavern thean his place of learning. This sets his character for his actions in the story.
He neglected his apprencticeship for the tavern, singing merry songs, enjoying "girls of joy" and playing on a guitar more than he did working for his trade. His master eventually ends his apprenticeship and it is suggested that the apprentice leads a live of thievery and wildness after.

The Manciple

This story is one based on mythology I believe. Phobeous (a spirt I think) posses a white crow so that he may find his wife. He locates her in a golden cage and tends to her for a while to make sure she is save and loyal. Despite being in a golden cage she commits adultry.

The Canon & His Yoeman

These two characters are introduced at a later part in the story. The are also traveling to Canterbury and ask to be allowed to join the caravan. They are told they will be but they must first tell a story. The yoeman begins to brag about his master but to his dismay the canon takes off on his horse leaving his yoeman behind. The yoeman then changes his story to the trickery and evil in canons.

The Nun's Priest

The priest is pressured into story telling after many members of the pilgrimage who have told tells refuse to tell another. He tells a brief story of a magnificent rooster who lives in a barn yard. He lives like most roosters around chickens and other barn yard animals.

The Monk

The Monk speaks out for a level of society that represents injustice. He tells tales of world leaders of Rome and Greece and even biblical leaders for being dishonest. He represents to me a strong sense of the good values in religion in the mid evil ages.

Chaucer and Sir Thomas

Chaucer, one of the pilgrims on the journey tells the next story about a knight caleld Sir Thomas. Sir Thomas is in love with a fairy queen and seeks her love in return. Sir Thomas rides out to fairyland to find his love but encounters a three headed giant at the gates of fairyland. At this point chaucner is cut off for not being poetic enough.

The Shipman

The shipman tells a story of husband and his wife who have a constantly visiting monk who claims to be the husbands cousin. This monk calls himself Dan John and visits the family a bit too often. One day the man's wife ask the monk for money secretly. The monk brings it to her and it hints that she trades sex for the money. The moral of this story is don't trust monks.

The Pardoner

The pardoner is obviously a religious man because he takes oaths and vowes before telling his story. He during this story tells of things that often disregard the oaths he took. He tells of young alcoholics who are afraid of death. Together three alcoholics set out to find stop and even try to kill death.

The Physician

The pyhsician's tale is brief and very ominous. It tells of a knight who has a young and very nice daughter. A rude and unlawful judge sees her and demands to have her no matter the price. The knight is over whelmed with dread for the future of his daughter. The story is brief but its message is direct, avoid sin at all cost by not sinning.

The Franklin

The franklin's tale is one about a lady married to a man named Argravious who is abscent at the time. A squire tries to court her in his abscence and to avoid the situation the lady demands an impossible feat. Unfourently the squire performs such a feat and leaves the lady in a dilemma of breaking her promise or staying faithful to her husband.

The Squire

A king host a great gathering and a knight bearing gifts arrives. His gifts are magical and he gives them to the royal family hosting the feast. He gives the daughter of the king a magical ring that allows her to communciate with birds and know vastly about healing properities of various herbs. One day while strolling through the woods she crosses a dying falcon. She heals the falcon and listens to its story about it's unfaithful falcon husband.

The Merchant

The merchant's tell is inspired by the clerks tale about marraige and how society expected a married couple to behave. The merchant recounts his tragicly short lived two month marriage. He provides a better example of marriage in a story about an old knight who decides to marry. All in all the topics dicussed about mid evil society are love, faithfullness, and marriage.

The Clerk

The clerk follows the summoners tale and his advised to try and make it a neutral story so now one would be offended. He tells a story of a Lord named Walter and his quest to create a heir so that his people's furture would be in good hands. He weds a poor girl and the last of the tell is about him testing the girls patience and tells that the moral of his story is based on his ideals that females should be submissive.

The Summoner

The summoner is the next person to tell a story after the firar ironically. He is mad at the friar for insulting people of his trade and decides to tell a story that makes friars look as bad as his profession had been made to look. In his tale he describes a friar that extorts people of his pastor for money for forgivness of their sins. I think in a modern version of the canterbury tales the summoner would also say the friar molested young boys to further disgrace his trade.

The Friar

The Friar represents the voiced religious levels in soceity in the "Canterbury Tales." His story details the trickery of a summoner. This person trys to blackmail an old widow to extort her for money on an order. The widow later curses the summoner to death. During this story, a summoner in the trail of people going to on the pilgramage turns out to be a summoner and is highly offended by the story.

The Wife of Birth

The wife of birth shows the level of women in the society of the middle ages. Her tale consist of her ideas of the laws of marriage and they way husbands should treat their wives. The story she tells is the only one in the "Canterbury Tales" that represents a women in a role in society.

The Man of Law

The story told by the man of law describes a tell of merchants from Syria coming to Rome and seeing the beautiful daughter of the Emperor. They tell their sultan in Syria of her beauty and then he agrees to convert to Christinsanity to avoid the legal problems of marriage between himself and a christain women. The sultan's mother turns the bride away when she arrives, but the daughter of the emperor maintains her dignity and eventually converts the sultan and finds reward in her faith. Textual evidence of the daughter finding rewards from her faith's persistence is best found in, " In vertu and in hooly almus-dede They lyven alle, and never asonder wende Til deeth departed hem; this lyf they lede;-And fareth now weel, my tale is at an ende. Now Jesu Crist, that of his myght may sende Joye after wo, governe us in his grace,
And kepe us alle that been in this place. Amen"

The Cook

The Cook tells a story about an aprentice named Perkyn Revelour. He describes him getting the nick name by his tiddy and neat apperance and fashionable hair. He was also a noted alcoholic and festive person at wedding parties. He was also invovled in riots and this made his master angry with him. "That fond his maister wel in his chaffare; For often tyme he foond his box ful bare. For sikerly a prentys revelour That haunteth dys, riot, or paramour, His maister shal it in his shoppe abye, Al have he no part of the mynstralcye. For thefte and riot, they been convertible Al konne he pleye on gyterne or ribible. Revel and trouthe, as in a lowe degree,
They been ful wrothe al day, as men may see." This direct text best sums up the cook's tale in the best possible way. Chauncer never finished the cook's tale and it is had a subtle and vague ending.

The Reeve

The Reeve tells his story after the Miller's becasue the Millers story was about a carpenter being tricked out of money and this offends the Reeve becasue he is a carpenter. He tells a story about a miller who ran a mill next to a brooke and decieves two students traveling by, but once they relise he tricked them, they trick him in return, the best direct text evidence for the high light of the story would be: " And therfore this proverbe is seyd ful sooth, 'Hym thar nat wene wel that yvele dooth'; A gylour shal hymself bigyled be. And God, that sitteth heighte in magestee, Save al this compaignye, grete and smale! Thus have I quyt the Millere in my tale."

The Miller

The Miller of "Canterbury" tales represents a much more middle class ideal in his story telling. He tells of the ordinary life of being a carpenter in an any day town in the medevil times and the parallel to modern times can be easily seen. He describes a normal every day man's problems with wifes, work, and being tricked. Part of this is seen through his words of: " For I wol telle a legende and a lyf Bothe of a carpenter and of his wyf, How that a clerk hath set the wrightes cappe." The Reve answerde and seyde, "Stynt thy clappe, Lat be thy lewed dronken harlotrye, It is a synne and eek a greet folye To apeyren any man or hym defame, And eek to bryngen wyves in swich fame; Thou mayst ynogh of othere thynges seyn."

The Knight

The Knight in the "Canterbury" tales shows the side of society that had been hardened by the crusades. His story reflects a life that has seen the tragedies of war and the affects it has on the human soul. One part of his story describes this, "Of alle oure lordes, whiche that been slawe,Hath alle the bodyes on an heep ydrawe,And wol nat suffren hem, by noon assent, Neither to been yburyed nor ybrent, But maketh houndes ete hem in despit." His story is lined with terrible tragedies of war and how it affected knights, lords, and even whole cities.

The Murder of Thomas Becket

Thomas Becket was a born into a middle class family in 1118 A.D. and was raised in Cheapside, London. His education was gained in two locations, his primary education taking place in England and his secondary education taking place in France, in Bologina a part of Paris. Upon his return to England he became a servant, friend, and apprentice to Theobald, the archbishop of Canterbury. He began to serve Theobald by serving as his courier to locations in Europe such as Rome and Paris. Eventually Theobald died and Thomas took over as archbishop. He helped raise king Henry's son as it was custom for nobility's children to live in a modest environment in their early life. He came into conflict with King Henry when he sided with the church on an issue over the King's power. He was charged with contempt to royal authority and was convicted but fled the trial and took refuge in France. After two years of working to have England's populace excommunciated and nearly succeding the King invited him back to calm the situation that Thomas had created. He returned to canterbury and eventully refused to sign on the King's proposals for ammendments to lessen the connection with Rome, which was the last straw for Thomas Becket. The king has four knights kill him while in the Canterbury abbey. He had the crown of his skull severed and his brains and blood stained the floor of the abbey. He was declared a martyr and a saint by the pope after his death.

The Black Death

The greatest epidemic to ever hit the human race and on two of the largest continents. Asia and Europe felt the disasturous affects of the plague that was supposedly based on the Yersinia pestis bacteria. The plague started in Asia and traveled to Europe, supposedly aboard a ship coming from the Asian continent carrying rats and passengers that had contracted the plague. With the plague came persecution of minorties that were believed to be the cause of the spread. The plague did not all take place in one time frame. A variation of the plague was felt across Europe every hundread years or so until the early seventeen hundreds.

The Crusades

In the Medevil ages religion was a key factor in everyday life. Sin was to be avoided like the plague ( which in this time was very important.) The first crusades were undertaken by European nations to help the Byzantine empire that was facing the advancing armies of the Seljuk turks. The Popes during these times saw the Muslim kingdom as political enemies and offered indulgences ( forgiveness of sins) to warriors who fought for Christandom. Other people than Muslims came under attack as well. These peoples were usually under the Popes order of excommunication, meaing they were rejected from the fold of the church and had to be removed so that God's will could be carried out unhendered.

The Magna Carter

The Magna Carter was one of the founding peices of law that shaped democracy in England. It translates from latin to "The Great Paper." It was written during a time when the royal family headed by King John, who felt that royalty was above the law. There was strong feelings by the lords that this was not so. It was written to end the debate and set a common law that even King John had to obey. This was considered one of the founding documents of the law that a nation had to follow.

Week Seven: Career Expectations

I possess the unique skills of learning how to select what Audio input device a recording software is picking up to enable a computer to record. I am familiar with video and recording soft ware and can transfer the files to the polar opposite software. I will hopefully be able to carry my internship into the summer and possible next year.

Week Eight: Workplace Saftey

In the studio your saftey doesn't even come first. The equipment is first and you are its loyal samurai defending it's honor. If you ever find yourself in a posistion to get workers composistion I would advise you to take any money you get from it and use it to pay off whatever broke in the process of your accident.

Week Eight: Workplace Saftey