180 likes | 192 Views
Explore interactive medieval manuscripts, learn to read iconography, discover medieval music websites, and plan your medieval-themed vacation with historical insights. Find valuable resources on Anglo-Saxon and Medieval literature, authors, and cultural contexts.
E N D
medievalia Lyrics, Marie, and getting ready for Gawain
Warwick Lyrics, Marie, and getting ready for Gawain
The nine worthies (Cologne) Hector, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar (Pagan) Joshua, David, Judas Maccabeus (Jewish) King Arthur, Charlemagne, Godfrey of Bouillon (Christian)
Interactive medieval manuscripts http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/pharos/sections/making_art/manuscript.html#
Learn to readiconography Colors Seasons Saints Emblems Actions Birds Beasts Humours
Music: Internet Renaissance Band www.curtisclark.org/emusic/ And a vacation-planning site
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
Old but still good: netserf cli Hundreds of links; artists, writers, architecture; however, many links are out of date
Medieval literary genres • Matiere de Rome • Roman de Thebes, roman d’Eneas, roman de Troie • Matiere de France • Anything about Charlemagne, Godfrey de Bouillon, etc • Matiere de Bretagne • Arthurian ---- see especially Chretien de Troyes, Marie, Christine…
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
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