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Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4
Lecture 5 Lecture 6 Lecture 7 Lecture 8

 

Week 10
(20 and 22 March)

Paper #2 Due: Wednesday, 22 March 2000

Civilizing the Knight; Troubadours; Medieval Love Lyrics; Courtly Love; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Marie de Champagne; Twelfth-Century Renaissance

Readings: Duby, William Marshal; Review Keen: Chapters 7-8.

 

Week 11
(27 and 29 March)

Women in the Middle Ages; Courtly Love

Guest Lecturer: Ms. Hurlburt: Monday, 27 March: Attendance is Mandatory!

Readings: Handout: Christine de Pisan; Andreas Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love; Keen: Chapters 11-15.

Monday: Christine de Pisan (Handout)
Wednesday: Troubadour Poems (Handout); Andreas Cappellanus, pp. 27-36.

 

Week 12
(3 and 5 April)

Courtly Love; Medieval Romance; Chivalry

Readings: Art of Courtly Love, pp. 27-62 (pay special attention to 59-62) and 141-212 (end); Beroul: The Romance of Tristan (on reserve in the library)

Monday: Art of Courtly Love
Wednesday: The Romance of Tristan  

 

Week 13
(10 and 12 April)

Courtly Love; Medieval Romance; Chivalry (continued)

Reading: Beroul, The Romance of Tristan; Chretien de Troyes, The Knight of the Cart  (Reader)

Monday: Beroul (continued if necessary); begin Chretien de Troyes

Wednesday: Chretien de Troyes

 

Week 14
(17 and 19 April)

Paper #3 Due: Wednesday, 19 April in class.

Arthurian Romances

Reading: The Death of King Arthur

Movie: Excalibur

Week 15
(24 and 26 April)

NO CLASS: MONDAY, 24 April 2000

Evolution and Fate of Knighthood and Chivalry: The Fourteenth Century to the Sixteenth Century

 

Week 16
(1 May)

NO CLASS: Work on Final Paper

 

Week 17

11 May: Final Paper Due

 

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