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http://www.litandwriting.umb.edu/engl401-1/fall06/home.htm

 

The Quick Grade-Improver Checklist!

Download a copy, check off each item, and attach it as a cover for each written assignment.

 

Everypig.  Click this link if you would like to supplement your dramatic reading by viewing a minimalist dramatization of Everyman acted by animated guineapigs.  No, not kidding.

Barthes Extract.  Read for 10/19. This article (translated from French) contains Roland Barthes's 1968 announcement of the 'death of the author'. Barthes's theorectical approach is one to consider as we think about how the nature of authorship is presented in the Canterbury Tales.

Healey Library

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Information Literacy Tutorial with Virtual Library Tour

http://www.lib.umb.edu/reference/NewTutorial/introduction.html

Library E-resources

http://www.lib.umb.edu/databases/index.cfm

Oxford English Dictionary

MLA Bibliography

ITER Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance 

 

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Phone: 617.287.7430

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Electronic Introduction to Old English

http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/research/rawl/IOE/index.html

with readings from Beowulf online:

http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/Beowulf.Readings/Beowulf.Readings.html

 

The Geoffrey Chaucer Website

http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/

 

Caxton’s Canterbury Tales

http://www.bl.uk/treasures/caxton/homepage.html

 

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Tolkien, Gordon, and Davis’ Middle English Edition)

http://name.umdl.umich.edu/Gawain

A Modern English Translation of the Second Shepherds' Pageant

(or, in Latin, the Secunda Pastorum)

http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/anglist1/html/secunda_past.html

Le Morte Darthur  On-line Companion

http://faculty.smu.edu/sshepher/MorteDarthur.htm

Unfortunately the on-line companion appears down for some reason.  If this site won't appear, you can look instead at Professor Sechard's site for more images and comparison of the printed and manuscript versions of Malory's work:

http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/sechard/344win.htm

 

Malory Manuscripts On-line Preview

http://www.bl.uk/treasures/malory/homepage.html

One Medievalist's Critical Perspective on the Da Vinci Code--

See the articles by Norris Lacy posted on the Arthuriana website:

http://faculty.smu.edu/arthuriana/

More (Much Much More) related to Monty Python's Holy Grail

http://www.intriguing.com/mp/holygrail.asp