Middle Ages

Context

• Links To Medieval Literary Resources
• The Power of Music in Medieval Literature
• Hunting Through Medieval Literature
• A Seat At The Round Table: Patriarchal Propaganda
• King Arthur's Death in Legend, History and Literature
• The Holy Grail: From Romance Motif to Modern Genre Folklore

Chaucer

• Chaucer MetaPage
• Jane Zatta's Chaucer Web Site Index
• The Electronic Canterbury Tales
• Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Idea - book review
• The Wife of Bath's Prologue Notes




Exagminations Essays

General Prologue: Miller's Portrait
Sir Orfeo and The Franklin's Tale
Sentence and Solace: The Franklin and The Clerk
Chivalric Warfare: The Knight's Tale and Le Morte D'Arthur

The Pearl Poet

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

• A. R. Shoaf: The Poem as Green Girdle: Commercium in SGGK
• A. R. Shoaf: The Syngne of Surfet and the Surfeit of Signs
• Sidney E. Berger: Gawain's Departure from the Peregrinatio
• Elizabeth A. Hoffman: A Re-Hearing of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Question of Masculinity
• From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance
• Arthurian Romance
• Medieval Sign Theory and SGGK
• SGGK Museum Page
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Notes
• Pearl, SGGK, Piers Plowman, The Book of Margery Kempe
• Vocabulary in SGGK
• Convention and Construction




Exagminations Essays

Sir Gawain as Sinner-Hero
The Wife of Bath and the Wife of Bertilak
Sir Gawain and the Grail Quest

Orfeo Poet

Exagminations Essays

Disarming Sir Orfeo
Reason and Will in Sir Orfeo and The Franklin's Tale

• The Magic of Sir Orfeo
• The King of Faerie in Sir Orfeo
• Dan Thurston's Orfeo and the Other World
• Music in Sir Orfeo

Malory

Exagminations Essays

Malory's Prose - Extract Analysis
Sir Gawain and the Grail Quest