medievalia

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medievalia

• Lyrics, Marie, and getting ready for Gawain

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Warwick

• Lyrics, Marie, and getting ready for Gawain

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Tintagel, from the hill above
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Tintagel, looking over the sea
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Chepstow
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The nine worthies (Cologne)
Hector, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar
(Pagan) Joshua, David, Judas Maccabeus
(Jewish) King Arthur, Charlemagne, Godfrey of
Bouillon (Christian)
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Interactive medieval manuscripts

• http//www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/pharos/sections/ma
  king_art/manuscript.html

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Learn to readiconography
Colors Seasons Saints Emblems Actions Birds Beasts
Humours
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Where to find medieval links
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Music Internet Renaissance Band

• www.curtisclark.org/emusic/
• And a vacation-planning site

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www.luminarium.org anthology

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• General Resources in Anglo-Saxon Medieval Lit.
  Authors and Anonymous Works
• Cultural Historical Context
  Manuscripts/Manuscript Study
•  Criticism   Dictionaries
• Journals Listservs/Newsgroups (AS Medieval Lit
•  Medieval Studies Programs Anglo-Saxon Medieval
  Pedagogy Courses and Resources
• Conferences (Anglo-Saxon Medieval Studies)
  Fonts For OE

vos.uscb.edu
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Old but still good netserf

• cli

Hundreds of links artists, writers,
architecture however, many links are out of date
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Medieval literary genres

• Matiere de Rome
• Roman de Thebes, roman dEneas, roman de Troie
• Matiere de France
• Anything about Charlemagne, Godfrey de Bouillon,
  etc
• Matiere de Bretagne
• Arthurian ---- see especially Chretien de Troyes,
  Marie, Christine

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Christine de Pisan
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Christine de Pizan, 1364-1430

• directly challenges the antifeminist attitudes
  toward women in Le Roman de la Rose with her own
  books and poems about women and their
  achievements
• Author of major manual on warfare and chivalric
  strategy, Fais d armes et de la chivalrie
  gives one of first descriptions of gunpowder in
  military history

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Chretien de Troyes, d. 1185

• Lancelot
• Cliges, Erec et Enide, Yvain
• Peredur (from Welsh
• Mabinogion) and the Grail
• (Roman de Perceval ou le
• Conte du Graal) visit
• ttp//www.monsalvat.no/index.htm