Have a very good holiday break – here are some notes from the 2d half of the semester
Take care, everyone.
Notes
Notes for week 7
Attached here are notes for week 7. Don’t forget to take the midterm Knowledge Confidence Survey (see just below here).
week 7
Knowledge Confidence Survey: A Preview of Midterm Exam
Everyone: Please take a few moments to go through a 10 question survey that will help me gauge our collective familiarity with some key concepts for the class. This information will help me design a better review, and a better exam. .
Thanks in advance. Click Here to take survey
Notes for week 6
Notes from Weeks 4 & 5; Looking ahead
Thanks for an interesting discussion today, everyone.
Here are notes for weeks four and five. I’ll post something tomorrow about the very interesting discussion here on Guinevere’s plight, and the issue of Lancelot’s arrogance. . .
wks45.zip
Reading Arthurian Romance: A way forward (and backwards)
It might have been helpful to go over these ideas a week ago or so, but we’ll be spending another week with Chrétien, and other romance narratives as well. . . [This week's notes are appended]
Reading any medieval text isn’t quite like reading modern or contemporary texts; it requires the modern reader to make a [...]
Some notes on Arthurian stories in Geoffrey of Monmouth
Because we ran out of time before we ran out of stuff to talk about I thought I would post a few things. My notes and slides from this week are attached at the end of this post, if you want them.
Notes and Stuff from Week 1
Notes on Arthurian history – Roman and sub-Roman Britain, and some on T.H. White and Sword in the Stone.
Notes week 1 (zip file)