the King's Works. · Was buried in Westminster Abbey. Chaucer's poetry Poetry generally divided into three periods: 1. The French period: "The Romance of the Rose" 2. The Italian period "Troilus and Criseyde" 3. The English Period "The Canterbury Tales" Chaucer's works are written in Middle English of London in The 1300s. "The Canterbury Tales": · He planned to write 120 tales but managed only 20. · They travel one April from an inn in a London fifty miles to the cathedral city of Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket. · The pilgrims can be divided into three groups: the feudal group, the church group and the city group. · It has been thought that Chaucer went on a pilgrimage himself.
founded a military organisation, but became social one. Estonians were never accepted into guilds. Town Wall Fat margaret and great coastal gate They were built not only to defend the city from the seaward side of town, but also to impress any visitors arriving via the harbour.The Great Coastal Gate, along with the Viru Gates, are the last of six gates that controlled access to the town in Medieval times. The gate system here on Pikk street originated in the 1300s, but it was during reconstruction in the early 16th century that the Fat Margaret cannon tower was added. Built from 1511 to 1530, this hefty, round tower has a diameter of 25 metres, a height of about 20 metres, and walls up to 5 metres thick. The origins of Fat Margaret's name are a mystery. Some theories insist it was named for one of its larger cannons, while others hint at a cook called Margaret who once worked here. In any case, the
structures, the Great Coastal Gate (Suur Rannavärav) and Fat Margaret tower (Paks Margareeta). They were built not only to defend the city from the seaward side of town, but also to impress any visitors arriving via the harbour. The Great Coastal Gate, along with the Viru Gates, are the last of six gates that controlled access to the town in Medieval times. The gate system here on Pikk street originated in the 1300s, but it was during reconstruction in the early 16th century that the Fat Margaret cannon tower was added. Built from 1511 to 1530, this hefty, round tower has a diameter of 25 metres, a height of about 20 metres, and walls up to 5 metres thick. The origins of Fat Margaret's name are a mystery. Some theories insist it was named for one of its larger cannons, while others hint at a cook called Margaret who once worked here.
Cultural diffusion seems a less likely explanation for its occurrence in. so many areas, many of them distant and isolated. The Yezidis, an obscure sect of about 25,000 people in, northern Iraq, use a cryptic script in their holy books because they fear persecution by their Moslem neighbors. Tibetans use a kind of cipher called "rin-spuns" for official correspondence; it is named for its inventor Rin-c'(hhen-) spuns(-pa), who lived in the 1300s. The Nsibidi secret society of Nigeria keeps its pictographic script from Europeans as much as possible because it is used chiefly to express love in rather direct imagery, and samples appear to be at least as pornographic as they are cryptographic. The cryptography of Thailand developed under Indian influence. An embryonic study of the subject even appears in a grammatical work entitled Poranavakya by Hluang Prasot Aksaraniti (Phe). One system,
annaabi.ee 
