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A Hero in Print and Throughout Time

the path to order by bringing structure to the process of understanding. The classical hero was one who was brave, honest, pious ...

Medieval Poets on Love

wide range of emotions. Sir Thomas Wyatt, the Elder (1503-1542), was a pioneer of the English sonnet, which was a variation of th...

Chaucer, Beowulf, and Lifestyles

rural lifestyle. Lacey and Danziger comment that the popular image of the medieval hall, with its rush-covered floor and central f...

San Marino, California's The Ellesmere Geoffrey Chaucer Manuscript

The illuminated first page of "The Knights Tale" can be viewed at http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/knightel.jpg. The student resea...

Deception in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale'

"General Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales, is one of only two pilgrims who tells no story of his own (Conlee 36). While critic J...

Medieval Marriage and Women's Roles in 'The Clerk's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

In eight pages this character analysis of Griselda in 'The Clerk's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer discusses how she reflects Medieval p...

Female Equality Struggle and 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

balance the levels of power each is able to wield. Not a Particularly Likable Woman! Since the Middle Ages of Chaucer and, no dou...

Troilus & Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

In four pages this paper discusses how Chaucer rewrote the pagan interpretation of Troy's fall with the inclusion of Medieval Chri...

Women and Chaucer's Attitudes in The Canterbury Tales

In three pages this essay considers how Chaucer offered an insightful commentary regarding medieval society's view of women in the...

A Comparison of The Physician's and Clerk's Tales in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

This research paper analyzes two portions of Chaucer's famous work, The Canterbury Tales. The author puts forth the proposition t...

Evil as a Theme in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Dante's Divine Comedy

A research paper addressing the portrayal of evil in Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The author draws the c...

Pardoner's Sexuality in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages this paper analyzes the Pardoner's sexuality in a consideration of the stories from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey...

Medieval Christianity and the Cathedral

medieval periods, which involved numerous activities of economic import, such as the "quarrying, carving and laying of stone, the ...

Wife of Bath’s Tale and Wedding of Sir Gawain

together and makes possible the fraternal and hierarchic bonds of chivalric solidarity" (Hahn). This contrasts sharply with the fo...

Medieval Manuscripts

wooden frames and written on with a stylus, as used in Roman antiquity, were used in the middle ages by students, accountants and ...

Chaucer

Chaucer was the sheer difficult nature of surviving in his times. It was a time when infant mortality was high, when struggles abo...

Estates Satire and Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

particular social classes. Its also obvious from this description that the three "estates" were based largely on whether or not p...

Gawain and Lancelot Heroic Comparison

of Lancelot and Gawain. The hero The publisher of Malorys work, William Caxton (1485), wrote in the preface: I...enprynte....

Analyzing the Epic Poem 'Beowulf'

In four pages the classic Medieval poem is analyzed. There is no bibliography included....

Cycladic Figure Art

In five pages the Museum of the Legion of Honor's Cycladic figure is examined in terms of its goddess religious significance. Fou...

Life of Medieval Author Geoffrey Chaucer

In 5 pages this paper examines the 14th century life, career, and writings of Geoffrey Chaucer that culminated in The Canterbury T...

Marriage Medieval Style in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages this paper compares how medieval marriage and women's roles were depicted in 'The Nun's Tale,' 'The Wife of Bath's T...

Review of Powell's Medieval Women

This paper examines how women during the Medieval period were worshiped by men and also oppressed in a critique of Medieval Women ...

Guinevere's Role in Arthurian Legend

This discussion examines the manner in which the legend developments the character and role of Guinevere and how it changed over t...

Medieval Spain and Treatment of Muslims

surrounded by Arabs who believed in God at the time, but things were strained. He saw a great deal of turmoil and destruction. Of ...

Medieval Italian History and Literature

points out that "communal Italy" is "historians shorthand for the high urbanized areas of Lombardy and Tuscany between the twelfth...

Medieval Art: The Arch Angel Michael Diptych

sculptures that were produced during this time, none were more magnificent than The Archangel Michael as he was depicted on a sixt...

Romance in the Sense of Medieval Debt and Obligation

of the debt and obligations that put opposing pressures on it, sending it reeling toward its inevitable conclusion--calamity. ...

Canterbury Tales and The Song of Roland

should control the entire known world and so the theme of religion, and the power of religious men, was not questioned in The Song...

Significance of Vernacular in "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer and "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri

Comedy." His Italian allegory depicts the Christian hereafter that is subdivided into cantos of Inferno (hell), Purgatorio (purga...