The peasant Bodo, life on a country estate in the time of Charlemagne
Marco Polo, a Venetian traveller of the thirteenth century
Madame Eglentyne, Chaucer's prioress in real life
The Ménagier's wife, a Paris housewife in the fourteenth century
Thomas Betson, a merchant of the Staple in the fifteenth century
Thomas Paycocke of Coggeshall, an Essex clothier in the days of Henry VII
