English 2322
WWW Assignment Number Three
Exploring and Using W.W. Norton Resources
THE ASSIGNMENT
This Presentation Paper, in order to become a community experience, will be posted on the Bulletin Board for our class. Please be prepared to post your drafts so that we can comment upon them. Your final drafts will be sent along as e-mail and attachment. There will be deadlines for your posting the material, but you can, of course, work at your own pace. .
During the course of your reading the introduction to the Middle Ages in Norton, we noted that there were several political, social, and religious structures which differ from those of this day.
You will notice on the Topics Online page that there are initially several areas (Look to left hand frame when you click on "Overview") which you can explore, the one noted here and the "King Arthur: Romancing Politics." We will work first with "Medieval Estates and Orders: Making and Breaking Rules." Click on "Overview" to get to the W.W. Norton Topics Page.
I. Medieval Estates and
Orders: Making
and Breaking Rules
from The Rule of Saint Benedict
Aelfric, Those Who Pray, Work, and Fight
from Ancrene Riwle (Rule for Anchoresses)
Ramón Lull, from The Book of the Order
of
Chivalry
from The Romance of the Rose
[The Advice of the Old Woman]
The Uprising of 1381
Fourteenth-Century Chronicles
from Henry Knighton's Chronicle
from Thomas Walsingham's Chronicle of
England
John Gower, from Vox Clamantis, Book 1
Estates Satire
John Gower, from Vox Clamantis, Books
3
and 4
John Gower, from the Mirour de l'Omme
You will have to go directly to the page in order to click on the links. Click "Overview" or the link noted below:
Directions
1. Select one of the topics--class time will be provided for this selection; otherwise, e-mail me with your choice.
2. Write a comprehensive summary of the work. It could even be in the form of a precis (more about this later.
3. Present this information to the class in both written form--we'll put your work online for review--and in a oral presentation.
4. The focus of the assignment should anticipate our work with Chaucer.
Select a topic from the W.W.
Norton Topics Online
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