Medieval people

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 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.