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This teller of a dirty tale could ram a door off its hinges with his head, had a red beard and a wart on his nose, played a mean bagpipe, and might have put his thumb on the scale as he measured out grain.

The Squire in The Canterbury Tales is

In King Arthur’s dream in which he is warned not to fight Mordred, the person who warns him is Lancelot.

This character, described by Chaucer-pilgrim as a possible eunuch or homosexual, sold pardons from Rome and claimed to have all sorts of miraculous religious relics.

In Morte D’Arthur, Lancelot tries to convince Guinevere not to come to his quarters while Arthur is gone, but she insists on visiting Lancelot despite the danger she may be in.

The Wife of Bath tells wise wives that women

In “Dream of the Rood,” both Christ and the cross are

In the Wife of Bath’s tale, what crime has the young knight committed?

King __________ the Great successfully resisted the Danes, ruled Wessex from 871-99, translated works of literature from Latin into Anglo-Saxon, and directed the start of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

At the end of the Wife of Bath’s tale, the knight gets a beautiful, faithful wife when he