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Medieval Literature: Love, Sex, and Marriage
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It is easy to think of love as a “universal language” - but do ideas about love translate easily across history, culture, and identity? In this course, we will encounter some surprising, even disturbing ideas about love and sex from medieval writers and characters: For instance, that married people can never be in love, that the most satisfying romantic love incorporates pain and violence, and that intense erotic pleasure can be found in celibate service to God. Through Arthurian romances, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, love letters, mystical visions, and more, we will explore medieval attitudes toward marriage, sexuality, and gender roles. What can these perspectives teach us about the uniqueness of the Middle Ages—and how do medieval ideas about love continue to influence the beliefs and fantasies of our own culture?

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Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Literature
Reading Literature
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Jones, Emily
Date Added:
02/01/2015
"The Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales as a Model for a Student Writing Activity
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Students will read “The Prologue” to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, examine Chaucer’s use of heroic couplets, figurative language, and tone, review types of poetical foot and meter, and write a narrative poem modeled after Chaucer’s “Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales. 

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Author:
Susan Halloran
Date Added:
07/07/2024