ENG 2131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fairy, Susanna Clarke, Jane Austen
29 Aug 2016
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November 3, 2015: jonathan strange and mr. norrell. Roman empire: many greek ideas to do with democracy, philosophy, geography, mathematics, history, many greek philosophers. Justice: period from 5th century to the 15th century, called the dark ages. Medieval period middle ages dark ages : name given to this time later, all the learning has been lost, all the knowledge lost in the fall of the roman empire and in its place was. Superstition : much closer connection to a supernatural world that exists in the natural world, emphasized by the overwhelming christianity, the anglo-saxons, goths were converted (pagans, no real difference between ruling power and christian power. Christians didn"t like all the pagan beliefs that existed and didn"t go away. The green knight: challenges the court of king author (christian court) Medicine: not surgery, doctors forbidden from cutting into the human body. Literature, faerie queen allegory between the land of faerie and england.
