The picture of the Medieval society in the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Medieval society was different, but not so different from what we experience today. In the fourteenth century people lived their life, almost the same life that we live. They were born, grew up, fell in love, married, had children and died. They ate, got drunk, went to work with hangovers, beat their spouses, grieved for their dead... There was alot about fourteenth century that we would find familiar. Women had a great role in medieval …

…demons in purgatory were said to punish the practice by sticking 'hot burning awls and needles' into every hole from which a hair had been plucked". Women of the fourteenth century had their unique qualities whether they were style, language, etc., but those women had the same general behaviors as the women of today have. As someone said, "For mankind is ever the same and nothing is lost out of nature, though everything is altered."