In the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer describes a character who is a yeoman in service of a knight. It's mentioned on line 115 that the yeoman has a shiny silver "Cristopher":

A Cristopher on his brest of silver sheene.

What exactly is a "Cristopher", and what does this tell us about this character?

In the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer describes a character who is a yeoman in service of a knight. It's mentioned on line 115 that the yeoman has a shiny silver "Cristopher":

A Cristopher on his brest of silver sheene.

What exactly is a "Cristopher", and what does it tell us about this character?

In the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer describes a character who is a yeoman in service of a knight. It's mentioned on line 115 that the knight has a shiny silver "Cristopher":

A Cristopher on his brest of silver sheene.

What exactly is a "Cristopher", and what does this tell us about this character?

In the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer describes a character who is a yeoman in service of a knight. It's mentioned on line 115 that the yeoman has a shiny silver "Cristopher":

A Cristopher on his brest of silver sheene.

What exactly is a "Cristopher", and what does this tell us about this character?