Middle English Literature, Fall 2001 -- Mr Furr
Homework Page
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I will post all writing assignments on this page.. You should create a 'bookmark' of your own to this page, so you can go to it without having to first go to the Home Page for the course.
HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS
THIS IS A REQUIRED ASSIGNMENT. If you don't complete it on time, you will get an "F" for this assignment.
Also - please go to Melissa Snell's Medieval-Renaissance Page, and subscribe to her 'Knightly Newsletter' (scroll down the page to find it). This is a very good page for anyone with a general interest (as opposed to a strictly academic interest) in the Middle Ages, and is lots of fun! Melissa keeps adding good stuff. Explore this page and enjoy!
While listening to, and making notes on, this lecture, make sure you are looking at the handouts, or Web Pages that accompany this lecture (and the next two lectures as well): The Social Hierarchy; The Universal Hierarchy; and the Ptolemaic Theory of the Universe. Please print these out and use them as "handouts." Also, bring them to class as well.
You will need to complete the set-up for Streaming Audio. Or, you may use either of the computer labs DI-277 (when it is free -- there are classes in it, too) or DI-281.
THIS IS A REQUIRED ASSIGNMENT. The fact that it is over the Internet doesn't mean it is "optional" or "extra."
NOTE: If you are listening to these lectures over the Internet (i.e. from off-campus, rather than on the MSU network), do not try to do so during "peak net use hours" -- roughly, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. weekdays, and maybe a little longer on weekends.
You can also "download" the entire file, and listen to it on RealPlayer whenever you want. There will be no 'streaming' problem, since the file will be on your own computer. But
It's 10:50 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 11, and news is coming out about a number of serious terrorist incidents in New York City and Washington, DC. We will not have a normal class tomorrow, Sept. 12. Instead, we will discuss these incidents and what will have happened subsequent to them. No attendance will be taken. I will be in class, however, and would be glad to see you all there to exchange information and ideas. - Grover Furr |
On Sir
Gawain
and the Green Knight (click on title to go to the edition we are using).
Note that "fitt1" begins at the beginning; "fitt2", at line 491;
"fitt3" at line 1126. These divisions are in the original manuscript, though the
term "fitt" is not used there. Probably the text was meant to be read in three
parts, on different evenings or sittings.
NOTE: Here are some Streaming Audio files of professional readers reading from SGGK:
- The first fit of Sir Gawain and the Grene Knight, from U. GA.(female voice)
- The same text, from the University of Vermont (male voice -- Albert C. Baugh?)
- A different male voice, from the third fit, also U. VT.
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (ca. 1360): lines 713-739.
Here is a link to The Apocalypse of St. John the Divine, as it is called in the Douay-Rheims Bible, the official Catholic translation of the Vulgate (Latin) Bible.
AND,
here is a link to the real Vulgate text, as read in the Middle Ages -- the Latin version by St. Jerome.
Both these versions are good for searching. Perhaps try reading the English before you tackle the Latin, though? ;-)
Homework Assignments on The Name of the Rose:
Here are the passages we will be discussing in class -- at least I hope we will get to them all. Please print this list out and bring it with you to class.
Assignments on Langland, Piers Plowman
On Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron.
NOTE: Go to the list of tales we will read here
You can download or read the tales online at the Brown University Decameron
Web.
But this is an old translation.
My advice is to bring in a copy from a library, if you don't own a copy
(you should!).
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