Christian Iconography and Medieval Burial Rites
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A 14 page paper discussing the influence of Christian symbolism and iconography in the Middle Ages. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: Icon.doc

Christine De Pizan/Book of the Three Virtues
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A 7 page essay that summarizes and discusses this work by medieval feminist De Pizan, who was a learned and scholarly author during an age (e.g. the fifteenth century) when the vast majority of women, including aristocratic women, were denied formal education. In this text, De Pizan sets herself the goal of teaching women, in all walks of society, how to go about cultivating useful qualities in society, and in the process, become worthy of inhabiting the "City of Ladies," which she described in the first book. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khdepvir.rtf

Clendinnen's Ambivalent Conquests
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This 3 page paper provides a book summary and critique. The book focuses on the Yucatan during the sixteenth century. No additional sources cited.
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Comparing Heroes: Lancelot and Gawain
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(5 pp) Mankind loves stories and their heroes. Some of our first romantic heroes appear in Sir Thomas Malory's (1485) Morte d Arthur. And while Gawain may have survived in literature it is Lancelot that has survived in language. He has become a symbol of unbounded and illicit love. But does that make him a hero in the symbology of this new century. This discussion will compare hero status of Lancelot and Gawain.
Filename: BBcomher.doc

Comparison of Internet Sites on Medieval History
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A 6 page research paper that examines and critiques three internet sites that deal with medieval history. The writer evaluates each site according to graphics, usability and the quality of information. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: khcommed.rtf

Comparison of Two Societies
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This 5 page paper compares the society as it appears in the Mediaeval work Beowulf to that of Ancient Greece. Expectations that the societies have for its citizens are discussed. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: SA 116Beo.wps

Corin Corley/Lancelot of the Lake
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A 3 page essay that explores the ramifications of the ceremony that makes the young Lancelot into a full knight. Because the ceremony is performed by two different people -- Guenevere and Arthur -- the writer argues that this divides Lancelot's allegiance and makes the subsequent events of the saga more consistent with the image of Lancelot as a superlative knight. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: khcorlan.rtf

Court Diary of Murasaki Shikibu
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A 5 page essay that examines the diary of Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in waiting at the court of the Japanese monarch from 1007 to 1010 A.D. The writer argues that through Murasaki's lyrical and descriptive prose, the modern day reader gets an insider's view into the day to day life of the Japanese aristocracy. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khmurdi.wps

Courtly Love
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21 pages in length. To define courtly love is to characterize the very essence of romance and chivalry, for both of these elements are indicative of the distinction between ordinary love and that which extols virtue, honor and courage by its very name. Famed writer C. S. Lewis defined courtly love as "Humility, Courtesy, Adultery, and the Religion of Love;" with this as a guideline, one can readily surmise that the comprehensive nature that was courtly love in its time encompassed a broad spectrum of characteristically inhuman traits that could only appear on the printed page of fictional literature. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: TLCCrtLv.rtf