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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