The Summoner

1. The Summoner Per. 2 Marisa Milde

2. Part 1 • What specific occupation does your character practice? Well it is obvious he summoned people to the Archdeacon'secclesiastical court for public immortality. • What does the need for this occupation tell us about the time period? That people were sinning a lot(committing adultery) and that they need Summoner to tellpeople when had to appear before the ecclesiastical court.However, so many abused this power by blackmailing the people who weresummoned. Therefore most were hated by the public. • What was his or her social standing? Well to the church there standings were very high. In contrast to that the public loathed the Summoners due to there conniving nature.

3. Part 1 Cont. • What might your character’s day to day life be like? He would wake up, probably in some back alley, report to court to seewho he had to summon, "visits" the Summonee and collects a small "donation",and finally with his "donations" he goes to a pub, gets drunk, and passes out somewhere. • What details about this character does Chaucer not include? There are no details about this character that were not included. Chaucer prettytold everything about the Summoners life and actions. • What modern day occupation might correspond to your medieval character and why? A Crooked Cop: I feel like this would describe the summoner because in the eyes of the law they only see the good that they do. However the public sees the fact that he uses he job to extort money from the lower middle class for his own benefit.

4. Part 3 • What is Chaucer’s opinion toward this character? It seems like he looks down upon the Summoner due to his evil and conniving ways. he doesn't want much more t do with him other than to tell his story. • What specific lines or words tell you this? This is shown when Chaucer says "I knew he lied in what he said" • What word choices require an understanding of vocabulary from the time period? There are many examples of this however some are carbuncles, whelks, concubine, and ale-house.

5. Part 3 Cont. • Do you see any satire? If so, what is Chaucer trying to reveal or expose about the time period? there are two main points of satire that I can see, one being when Chaucer describes him as a cherubim when in reality the Summoner is anything but and angel. another would be the fact that the Summoner works for the church to conn and manipulate people out of there money to allow himself to buy more booze. • What do you think Chaucer's purpose of including this character was? To show that there were conniving people even within the court system of the church which would be the last place that anyone would suspect due to the growth of Christianity, and this being the time of the crusades.

6. Extra Credit Lines • there was a summoner with us at the Inn,his face was as bright face as red as a beethis face was covered with revolting boilshe had eyes like the Chinesehe was consumed with lusthe had a thin beard and gross cut eyebrowswhen he was seen by children they ran the other wayit showed that he didn't care about personal hygienehe had rancid garlic, and onion breathhe was dunk and incomprehensible except for a few sayinghe was not very smart he probably didn't know what he was actually saying

7. Work Cited • "What Did A Summoner Do In Medieval England? - Blurtit." Ask Questions, Get Free Answers - Blurtit. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012.web • "What was the job of a summoner in medieval times." The Q&A wiki. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012.web.