2/22 Warrriors and War Tales in Early Medieval Europe: England
read: Bouchard, chap. 2
- Elegy:
- Battle poems:
- Epic: Beowulf
- Castles:
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- challenge and boasting: Book I: 12ff
- arms and arming: Book II: 25ff
- Arms and Armor:
read: Bouchard, chapter 3
reading: Bouchard, chap. 5
- Institutional connections
- nobles as secular churchmen
- episcopal churchmen as landowners and officials
- monasteries founded by nobles: Cluny
- nobles serving as abbots/abbesses
- monasteries as landowners
- Spiritual issues
- Starting the Crusades (summer 99 course and links)
- Christianizing the Knight:
- Crusade warfare:
3/9 Women, Warriors, and the Court: 12th Century France
reading:
- Bouchard, chapter 4
- handout from Hollister, on literature (lyric and romance)
- choose one of the four Chretien de Troyes stories below
- Chivalry
- The court and courtly love
- lyric: dying for love (see Hollister handout)
- romance: Chretien de Troyes
- fabliaux: class comedy
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