Canterbury Tales Characters and Humours Satire

Humours & Estates satire Philology 1 week 4 September 2008

Characters in the Canterbury Tales ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Physiological make-up ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Contraries and Humours ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The Humours ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Complexion or Temperament The predominating humour determines the complexion or temperament of individuals: Phlegm -> Phlegmatic Yellow bile -> Choleric Blood -> Sanguine Black bile -> M elancholic

Choleric complexion (yellow bile) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Melancholic complexion (black bile) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Sanguine complexion (blood) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Phlegmatic complexion (phlegm) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Estates Satire ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

‘ Non-moral Chaucer’ ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The four voices in the Cantebury Tales ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The Summoner Officer who carried summonses from an ecclesiastical court to a person charged to appear to answer for a number of offenses (witchcraft, usury, adultery, robbing churches,…) .

Chaucer’s Summoner (choleric) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Chaucer’s Friar (melancholic) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

We sely freres wedded to poverte … ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Ire is a thyng that hye God defended ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What is a ferthyng worth parted in twelve? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

John the Evangelist in ‘The Last Supper’ Often portrayed with his head in Christ’s lap (his “ nave” ) ‘ He lay at the breste of his maister Crist and saw there the prevytees of heaven’ ( Speculum Sacerdotale ) Friar John is entitled to the vulgar offering that Thomas hyd in pryvetee (l. 2143)

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