ENGLISH 4520.01- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 26 pages long!)
11 Oct 2017
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Faux medieval: knights, feasts, renaissance fairs, more romantic. Division: women"s lives and writings, hrotsvitha, hildegard, heloise, christina of markyate, margery kempe, christine de pizan, joan of arc, writings about women, beowulf, wife of bath, morte darthur, laos of marie de france silence troubadours. Leona abbess of bichs : moderation, prayer and study require concentration, one can"t concentrate properly without rest, afternoon naps, no staying up late. Gandersheim abbey: founded in 852, autonomous, army, coinage, seat in imperial diet law court, center of learning and culture, gerberga 2, nuns vs. canonist, canonist embraced religious life as long as they wanted, not a life vow. Virgin martyrs, reformed prostitutes, transvestites: martyrdom ofis perpetua and felicity, young mother arrested with christians, renounces father. Generic messages: women show their saintliness through sexual purity, saints are high born. The fall and repentance of mary: virgin mary, deceived by a sinner. Abelard"s world view: man"s injustice, abelard is wrongly maligned and persecuted by everybody.
