Medieval people

The precursors

Bodo, a Frankish peasant in the time of Charlemagne

Marco Polo, a Venetian traveller of the thirteenth century

Madame Eglentyne, Chaucer's prioress in real life

The menagier'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.