The+Manciple

== In the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, the manciple was a puchasing agent for the law of court who tells a fable, or story, about Phoebus Apollo and his pet cow, which is a mythe explaining the crow's black feathers, and a moralistic injunction against gossip. The Manciple was what basically someone who would take care of your needs when you stayed somewhere. He would be at your beck and call and He was kind of a servant but a higher class. The manciple made sure everything was organized and together so that the higher class like knights or lords, and middle class like the clerk or the plowman, could just simply pick it up or wouldnt have to do as much work. Although the maciple worked alone he wasn't his own boss. He worked for the higher class so basically he was the person everyone leaned on to get things done. the Manciples day to day life may consist of helping people around the inn or other places. If someone has something that they needed or couldn't do on their own then it was the Manciples job to finish the job for them. He/she was responsible for getting whatever the high class ordered from them. ==

**__ PART ONE __**
= * What specific occupation does your character practice? =  · The Manciple is in charge of buying provisions for a group of Lawyers in London, but is shrewder in his management than all of them put together. = * What does the need for this occupation tell us about the time period? =  ·  The need for this occupation tells us that the manciple was a cook that helped manage monasteries. = ﻿ *What was his/her social standing? = = *What might your character's day to day life be like? =  · The Manciples day to day life is, working all day getting things ready for the day, preparing food. = *﻿What details about this character does Chaucer not include? =  · The details about the character that Chaucer does not include are how he looked, and his personality. = *What modern day occupationmight correspond to your midieval character and why? =  · The modern day occupation that might correspond to my medieval character is a manager, or a chef. Because he would cook, and act as a manager. =__ PART TWO __= = ﻿*Paraphrase each line of the poem. =
 * The manciples social standing was the middle class.