literature question

Work and author; Thematic importance; Relate to the Middle Ages. Write a short paragraph for every quotation.

Quotation 1.“More than one girl in the family was born without a nose to blow, and lived on like that—un-nosed. It’s true! It really is!”

Quotation 2. “He ordered the best smith to forge a tiny vessel, not from iron or steel, but from the purest gold and fine precious stones, really expensive ones, and also forge for the vessel a fine tight-fitting lid.

Quotation3. “’Lady,’ he said, “you have been ill-advised. I love and am loved by one who deserves the prize of beauty above all whom I know.

Quotation 4.“She wore next to her skin a rough garment of hair; above it a short gown of woolen stuff, a hand’s breadth above her ankles; her sleeves were rolled up to her elbows, and her hands and feet bare. Many hearts and many eyes beheld her with pity.”

Quotation 5.“I was a man of arms, and then I was a friar, believing that robed as such I could make amends and certainly what I intended might have come true had it not been for the Great Priest, on whom evil may fall.”