ENGLSH 1210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Thomas Becket, Geoffrey Chaucer, Rosa Rubiginosa
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Chaucer, first passage up until line 18, everything is nice- its spring time, pilgrimages- people go make vows to visit a place that holds religious significance. This is why it has been so strong over the years. They meet at the inn: all of these folks make a game- we will each tell 2 stories one on their way there one on their way back. Whoever tells the best story gets a prize. Chaucer never got around to giving them 2 stories: nun- madame eglantine, she was beautiful, elegant, modest, well mannered, They talk a lot about her food and how well mannered she was when eating, she speaks french that she learned it in a convent school in a suburb of. London, she speaks this school type french not the dialect of paris, she knows. English but french is the language that will allow her to interact with powerful people.
