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Early British Survey
Early British Literature
Gender and Sexuality
Key Terms on Queer Themes in the Middle Ages
Queer Torture in the Middle Ages and Beowulf
Queer Acceptance in the Middle Ages and Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
Eve: More Than Just the First Woman
Eve: A Rebel in Paradise
Eve: The First Queer Woman
Gendered Betrayal in Medieval Arthurian Myths
Forbidden Love’s Betrayal
Punishments of Treason
Magic and Femininity
Magic and Femininity in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Magic and Femininity in The Faerie Queene
Magic and Gender in Arthurian Romance Poetry
Magic and Gender in “Lanval”
Magic and Gender in “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
50 Shades of Courtly Love
Dominator in Love and Life
The Hue of Female Power
Adultery in the Middle Ages
Adultery in “Lanval”
Adultery in “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
Representations Of Femininity In Morality Plays
Femininity In Everyman
Femininity In Doctor Faustus
Monsters and Women
BEOWULF AND GRENDELS’ MOTHER
Satan and Sin
Politics, Power, and Economics
Shifting of Political and Economic Structures
Feudalism in Gawain and the Green Knight
Paradise Lost and Tracing the Fall of Feudalism
Knighthood in the Middle Ages
knighthood in “Lanval”
Knighthood in “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
The Divine Right to Rule: Past Perceptions of Monarchy
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Condescending Commentary on the Monarchy?
The Faerie Queene: Spenser’s Ode To Queen Elizabeth I
Chivalry & Identity in Early Brit Lit
Chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: the Establishing of a Literary British Identity
Chivalry in the Faerie Queen: Continuing to Establish British Identity
Religion
GOD: Humanity’s Most Influential Literary Figure
My Pain, Your Pain, His Gain: What God Means to Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich
Respect My Authority: How God Rules Over Creation in Everyman & Paradise Lost
Imitatio Christi: How Doctor Faustus and Everyman Mimic Jesus through Suffering
Imitatio Christi: How Antagonists Mimic Christ
Imitatio Christi: Satan as a Jesus Figure
Depictions of the Devil in British Literature
Faustus: To Laugh Is To Be Against Evil
The Devil As Sympathetic: Human Qualities in Paradise Lost
Representations of Hell
Hell in Beowulf
Paradise Lost’s Liquid Hell
Medieval Mysticism: A Space For Women’s Authority
Julian of Norwich
Margery Kempe
God, Literature, and Religious Denomination in a Changing Christendom
Mysticism and Miracle in Catholic Europe
The Reformation and the “Intellectualization” of God
Nature and Culture
The Environment from the Middle Ages to Early Modern Period
Environment in Paradise Lost
Environment in Sir Gawain and Utopia
Kissing in Medieval Literature- Brooke Zimmerle
Kissing in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Kissing in Margery Kempe
Medieval and Early Modern Feasts
Feasts in Sir Gawain
“Meals in common”: Utopian Dining
Ars Moriendi and the Early Modern Period
Authors’ Views on Ars Moriendi
Ars Moriendi in Everyman
Games Medievalists Play
Beowulf’s Game: Battle
Sir Gawain’s Game: A Courtly Dare
Literary Concerns
A Brief History of Allegorical Literature
Allegory in the Middle Ages
16th vs. 21st Century Allegory
Allegory in the Middle Ages and the 18th Century
Allegory in Everyman- pg3
Allegory Defined
Female Readership in the Middle Ages
Parenting Through Books
Julian of Norwich
Heroes of Epic British Literature
Beowulf as a Hero
Satan as a Hero – Paradise Lost
The Role of the Translator
Fixers and Their Roles in Translations of Medieval Texts
Translations and How They Change the Meaning of Medieval Texts
The Self in 15th and 16th Century Dramatic Literature
The Self in Everyman
The Self in Faustus
Gender and Sexuality