Please make sure you have listened to The Medieval World View, Part 1. Make sure you have taken notes.
Then, please listen carefully to, and make good notes on, Part 2 and Part 3.
If you prefer, you can download each of the lectures by RIGHT-clicking on these links: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3. Then you can 'stream' them from your hard drive, and there'll be no possibility of delays because of 'net congestion.'
Be sure to refer to the handouts/web pages that accompany these lectures, The Social Hierarchy; The Universal Hierarchy; and the Ptolemaic Theory of the Universe. These are also linked at the top of the HW page.
Please write 300 words about the major DIFFERENCES you see between Medieval ways of thinking and ways of thinking we use today. Email to me with proper subject line and in proper format.
This is an important assignment. Most of what students find difficult about medieval literature and culture comes ultimately from its relative difference from our own time. A lot of that difference is due to the fact that the same words were used in a difference sense in the Middle Ages, with different meanings, than they are today.