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Surprise-Archive 2007
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Click on the months to open the popup-windows with texts, information and links!
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January to December 2007
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January 2007
Sir Orfeo
Orfeo and his harping
(Middle English adaption of a classical legend)
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February 2007
John Lydgate, The Minor Poems
A Kalendare: Februarius
(Who does Lydgate choose as his Valentine?)
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March 2007
Simon Bening, The Book of Hours
March: Farming and Gardening
(What peasants do, when spring is coming)
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April 2007
The Harley Lyrics
When þe nyhtegale singes
(What happens, when the Nightingale sings in April?)
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May 2007
Joan of Arc
Letter to the King of England, 1429
(A declaration of war in troubled times)
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June 2007
The Harley Lyrics
Sumer is icumen in
(The most famous medieval English summer-song)
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July 2007
The Land of Cokaygne
Introduction
(A description of the Land of Milk and Honey)
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August 2007
Circle of the Months
August: Harvest
(Labours of the Months in a Medieval Fresco)
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September 2007
City of London Memoranda Rolls
The case of the wine carriers (1349)
(How easy to be sent to Newgate Prison!)
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October 2007
Pieter Breugel the Elder
The Flemish Proverbs
(All about medieval Proverbs)
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November 2007
John of Reading
Chronica: Extremes of Fashion
(There’s no accounting for tastes ...)
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December 2007
The Townley (Wakefield) Mystery Plays
Play 13: The Second Shepherds' Play
(Shepherds’ comment on the apparition of the angel)
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