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Surprise-Archive 2008
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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 2008
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January 2008
Circle of the Months
January: Snowball fight
(Winterly pleasures, even for the nobles)
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February 2008
Alfred the Great and "Rule, Britannia"
The connection 878 / 1740
(Short History of the “Song of Songs”)
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March 2008
Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
The Nun's Priest's Tale
(What is Chauntecleer doing in the yard in March?)
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April 2008
Bartholomaeus Anglicus
On the Properties of Things
Book IV, Chapter 1: On the Elements
(A medieval view on the Four Elements)
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May 2008
Syr Thomas Malory
Le Morte Darthur, Book I, Cap. XXVII
with a Preface by William Caxton
(About children born on May-day)
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June 2008
Allegorical Debate Poem
Winner and Wastour:
The Combatants in the Tournament
(A Tournament of Allegorical Impact)
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July 2008
Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
“The Franklin's Tale”
(A prayer to the sun-god)
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August 2008
Simon Bening, The Book of Hours
August: A Break During Wheat Harvest
(High Noon in Medieval Peasants’ Lives)
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September 2008
Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
“General Prologue: The Monk's Portrait”
(How to be all the richer for renouncing worldly life)
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October 2008
Thomas Hoccleve, Letter of Cupid
Hoccleve's (satirical) Version of
Christine de Pisan's Epistre au Dieu d'Amour
(Lovers’ behaviour from her and from his perspective)
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November 2008
Geoffrey Chaucer, Minor Poems
Chaucer’s Wordes unto Adam,
His Owne Scriveyn
(Don’t trust a word your scribe writes ...)
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December 2008
The Art of Medieval Illumination
Breviary of Martin of Aragon:
Nativity
(Watch out! Angels hiding everywhere)
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