Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Major changes to list of readings for the rest of the term


Since we do not have time to cover most of the authors, I have ranked the remaining authors according to my priorities and interests, and also with an eye to giving you a good variety of genres and subjects. And I want to make sure we get through the various poems in the last section, so we will now read, in order:

MM 148-50: Robert the Monk
RML 17.3: Peter Abelard
         17.4: Heloise
         17.5(a): Hildegard of Bingen
MM 166-168: Hildegard of Bingen
         199-201: St. Francis of Assisi
RML 15.1: Carmina Cantibrigensia
MM 136-7: Cambridge Songs
RML 20.2: Carmina Burana
MM 224 ff.: Carmina Burana
        177-179: The Archpoet
        186-188: Walter of Chatillon

If we have class time left after this, we will backtrack to something like William Fitzstephen (RML) or Geoffrey of Monmouth (MM).