Place: HLG 321
Instructor: Dr. Chris Healy



Materials

• Course Information
• Schedule

Useful Links

• Chaucer's Pronunciation, Grammar and Vocabulary (an audio guide to basic Middle English prnunciation)
• Ballads
• "Sir Patrick Spens"
• Moon and Earthshine (This image shows the astronomical event to which lines 25-26 refer.)
• Lyrics
• "Sumer Is Icumen In"
• Wessex Parallel Web Texts (Information including background, manuscript view, translation, etc.)
• "Alysoun"
• Wessex Parallel Web Texts (Information including background, manuscript view, translation, etc. Do not be confused by the different title.)
• "A Wayle Whyt"
• Wessex Parallel Web Texts (Information including background, manuscript view, translation, etc.)
• "Lenten Is Come with Love to Town"
• Wessex Parallel Web Texts (Information including background, manuscript view, translation, etc.)
• "The Man in the Moon"
• The Man in the Moon (The one to which this lyric refers, not the face)
• "Nou Skrinketh rose"
• Wessex Parallel Web Texts (Information including background, manuscript view, translation, etc.)
• The Wakefield (Towneley) Cycle (Read the other plays in the cycle.)
• The Land of Cockaygne
• Wessex Parallel Web Texts (Information including background, manuscript view, translation, etc.)
• The Medieval Bestiary (Read about animals other than those in your textbook.)
• Pearl (a modern translation by Bill Stanton)
• The Owl and the Nightingale
• Medieval Bestiary: Beast Index (Read contemporaneous understandings of the animals personified in the text.)
• Nightingale - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Listen to a recording of a nightingale singing.)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• The Pearl Poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Read a translation by Paul Deane.)
• Gawain Shield Worksheet (A helpful way to learn the symbolism)
• Medieval Bestiary: Beast Index (Read contemporaneous understandings of the animals hunted in Fitte 3.)

• MED Lookups (Middle English Dictionary)
• Literary Resources--Medieval (Lynch) (An excellent first stop for Web-based research)
• The Labyrinth (Resources for Medieval Studies)
• The ORB (On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies)
• NetSERF (The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources)
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
  
• Medieval Britain Index
• Voice of the Shuttle (Web Site for Humanities Research)
• Catholic Encyclopedia (an excellent resource for more than Catholicism)

ULL Links

• Moodle
• Edith Garland Dupré Library
• Zimbra