General Prologue links

                 

What’s Not Happening in the General Prologue

 

Prologue.ppt

 

Pilgrimage3.ppt (images and perspectives on pilgrimage)

 

Medieval Estates and Orders (from the Norton Anthology)

 

Estates satire (Gower)

 

Estates Satire (Langland) (also here) (and yet here again)

 

Estates Satire (modern)

 

Unintentional Estates Satire (New York Times)

 

Structure of the Tales

 

Lines 1-18 aloud

 

Update on Becket’s bones

 

Some additional critical remarks