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Surprise-Archive 2004
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January to December 2004
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January 2004
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
The Year A. D. 1004
(What happened 1000 years ago?)
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February 2004
Bartholomaeus Anglicus
On the Properties of Things
Book IX, Chapter 30: On Lent
(A medieval view on the 40 days of Lent )
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March 2004
The Harley Lyrics
Bytuene Mersh ant Aueril
(About love in spring)
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April 2004
The York Cycle
Play 36: The Death and Burial of Christ
(Good Friday in a medieval play)
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May 2004
Syr Thomas Malory
Le Morte Darthur
Book I, Cap. VII
(At the feast of Pentecost Arthur was crowned king)
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June 2004
William Langland
Piers Plowman: The Prologue
The Fair Field of Folk
(A summer day’s dream)
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July 2004
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
The Wife of Bath’s Portrait
(About herself & her pilgrimage to Santiago - July 25)
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August 2004
Geoffrey Chaucer
Treatise On The Astrolabe
10. Circle of the Months of the Year
(Why is this month called August?)
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September 2004
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Passus II: Gawain’s Journey
(An important day in the year: Michaelmas)
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October 2004
Thomas Hoccleve (1369-1426)
The Regiment of Princes
Lament for Chaucer's Death
(About October 25, 1400)
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November 2004
Master of James IV of Scotland
Isabella Breviary: St. Martin of Tours
(Brügge ca. 1490)
(November 11: St. Martin’s Day)
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December 2004
Early English Carols
In Patras, ther born he was
(ca. 1450)
(December 6: St. Nicholas)
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