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companionship/company, description of relations between lord and retainers.
loyalty/service for treasure/support.
name was later-more of an idea at the time. |
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emphasizes good of germans to criticize romans.
literary, not historical. |
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| location of Judith (poem) |
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| Beowulf MS. (London, BL, Cotton Vitellius. A. xv.) |
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| Differences between OE and Biblical Judith |
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Biblical: Judith=widow, prayer before beaheading is to "Lord God," offers post-victory winnings to God
OE: Judith=virgin, prayer before beheading is to Father, son, spirit (christian, trinitarian, and anachronistic); keeps post war gainings (fulfills comitatus) |
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| sexuality/gender elements in OE Judith |
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Medieval Christianity - proper ways of expressing sexuality were virginity,
conjugality in marriage, and chaste widowhood |
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| 1386, starts Canterbury Tales |
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| 1386-1400, never completed |
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| Canterbury Tales characters |
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Nobility: Knight
Commoners: Miller, Reeve |
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| Whale, Panther, PArtridge in Exeter book |
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| version drawn from Lactantius,Carmen de Ave Phoenix |
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| Middle English Physiologous |
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MS London, British Lib, Arnundel 292
East Midlands dialect
1st 1/2 of 13th century
prayers, sermons, a life of Merlin Ambrosius, some works of the historian Geoffrey of Monmouth, beast fables of Odo
the "bestiary" trans of latin verse (cf Harley 3093, Addl. 10415, Arnundel 243 (all Brit Lib MSS) |
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| LM- attitude towards marvels |
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drew heavily on classical sources, esp Augustine, Isidore, and Virgil
Earlier material may not have been known to authors
Possible source for Wodners/Letter
Distrustful of pagan authors, unless verified by Christian writers or of sufficient authority (virgil) |
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| Wanderers of the East MSS |
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London, BL, Cotton Vitellius A xv (beowulf MS)
early 11th century |
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(356-323 BCE)
son of philip of macadonia
student of aristotle |
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| Anonymous: Alexander Romance |
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most likely source for OE translator
possibly late 9th/early 10th century exemplar in beowulf- uncertain |
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| London, BL, Cotton Vitellius A. xv |
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5 texts that deal with monsters/humans acting monstrous
1. Wonders of the East
2. The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle
3. Beowulf
4. Judith |
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| marvels supposedly found in India |
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| Letter of Alexander to Aristotle |
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| purports to be a letter that Alex. wrote to describing battles with monsters and the marvels he sees in India |
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| one leaf had fallen out in copying and wasn't properly placed until 19th century |
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| deuterocanonical text about Jewish woman who helps her town of Bethulia withstand the Assyrians by tricking and beheading Holofernes |
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| WHenever Beowulf was written |
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| it was COPIED into this MS early in the 11th century |
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| preaching on a specific topic, not the pericope (appointed reading for the day) |
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| explication of the day's reading |
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| Wulfstan's religious writings |
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Sermo Lupi ad Anglos (Sermon of WOlf to the English) between 1009 and 1014
-3 versions of the sermon, explains England's social/political problems as divine punishment |
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| Lives of St. Margeret, St. Juliana, St. Katherine, Sawles Ward, HALI MEIOHAD |
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| Oxford, Bodlein Library, Bodley 34, c1225 |
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| Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 303, 12c |
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| Sexuality: Medieval Christianity |
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proper ways of expressing sexuality were virginity, conjugality in marriage, and chaste widowhood
order matters |
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shaped by classical education
-sexual desire points one to the world away from God |
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| distrust of emotions- rational life |
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| distrust of material/social world-intellectual/spiritual life |
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| could be seen as empowering in a rigid society |
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| permitted, but the ideal was moving one's love from material to spiritual world |
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originated in satires of Ovid, Roman writer
Ars amatoria, Remedia amoris, Amores |
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| The Art of Courtly Love (text) |
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Andreas Capallanus
rhetoric book on how to attract women of different classes (12c) |
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| courtly love (in general) |
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how to show finer feelings and emotional attachment in very controled sexual atmosphere
-reactive to culture of arranged marriages and family control over women's sexuality
often sexual love, unconsummated desire (Dante, Petrarch)
often disparity between lovers' classes
Distance/inaccessibility of lovers
More literary ideal than historical one
-few practiced |
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military duties to one's lord
-liefe/vassal relationship: parallel, but not = to comitatus (more freedom)
social obligation: collection of taxes, support of households and manor
-feudalism: term on way out, imprecise
-serves God and lord
-social relationships had more direct importance as time went on |
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short poem, octosyllabic couplets, usually on subject of courtly love
-some form of personal crisis: situations similar to saints lives & didactic literature, but from more secular view point |
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| short, humorous poems, usually sexual in content, often anti-clerical, anti-nobility satire |
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| all we know for sure: noble, educated, around the court of Henry II |
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| 3rd quarter of 12th century (1173-1185) |
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| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight-MSS |
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-London, British Library, Cotton Nero A.x
-part of "Alliterative Revival" of late 14h century
-Pearl, Cleanness/Purity, Patience, Sir Gawain... |
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| Sir G and the G Knight: Stanza format |
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-also part of alliterative revival, 14th c
-bob and wheel (2 syllable divider line "bob" and 4 lin ballad stanza "wheel" |
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-coeditor of ME texts w. EV Gordon in 1925, rev ed 1967 w. Norman Davis
-translation was in existence by 50's and broadcast on BBC in 53 |
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