E 311: Legends of Arthur

Sept

We meet TTH 11:15 am - 12:30pm in Bartlett.

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WEEK 3 Historical Background

Tu 19 Sept. Roman Britain

• Paper One Assignment Description.
• Read Gildas.
• Celtic Tribes of Britain map. Romans v. Celts (recent find)
• Read Nennius.
• Read Bede. Historia Ecclesiastica, Book 1, chapters 14-17.

 

Th 21 Sept. Anglo-Saxons & Britons

• PAPER ONE due.
• Read this: Wulf and Eadwacer.
• Some manuscript images: click on Lindisfarne Gospels; Anglo-Saxon illustrated manuscript, Junius 11: browse, if you like (click here).
• map of Anglo-Saxon England ; Bayeux Tapestry.
• Read Geoffrey of Monmouth (start with Introduction), Arthurian passages from the Historia Regum.

   

  Review Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon poetry. If you'd like to see it, Wace adapted Monmouth's work in the Roman de Brut; it is on-line here.