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MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE HOME PAGE

SPRING 1998 ENGL34501 Mr Furr

Welcome

to our Home Page on the WorldWide Web!

Go here to our new Discussion Forum on the WorldWide Web!, to post your messages.

This page will contain all the homework assignments, the syllabus, course schedule, and many other important materials for this course.

You can also email me by clicking or pressing "Enter" on this link.

Here are some of the basic documents for our course. Much more will follow!

1. The Course Syllabus -- the latest version will always be here.
2. Schedule for Required Readings, student reports, exams, holidays, etc.
3. Guidelines for the Research Paper for this course.
4. Guidelines for the Individual Research Paper
5. Guidelines for the Group Presentations
6. Guidelines for the Annotated Bibliography
7. Manual for the Alpha System.
   This manual has everything you need to know and more!
8. My Medieval History and Literature Page, with lots of links to excellent resources on the Web. We will use these resources often, so browse around!
9. My Research Page. Lots of good resources for doing research on the Internet.

Homework Assignments

I will put links to all homework assignments here.

• For Wednesday, January 21 - go to my Medieval History and Literature Page (see above). Browse through it, and explore FIVE different Medieval sites. Then, email me about 300 words discussing them.
• For Monday, January 26: check out The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, from Professor Paul Halsall's Internet Medieval Sourcebook. Read as many of them as you can. Write 300 words about at least TWO of them, and email to me.

Homework on "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight":

• For Monday, February 2.
• For Wednesday, February 4.
• For Monday, February 9.

Homework on "The Nun's Priest's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer;

• For Monday, February 16.
• For Wednesday, February 18.
• For Monday, February 23
• For Thursday, February 26 -- please make certain to do the assignment for Monday, Feb. 23, very carefully! This issue of allegory -- Medieval Literary Theory -- is very important, and we will spend some time on it once the reports are completed.

NOTE: CLASS CANCELLED MONDAY, MARCH 2.

• For Wednesday, March 4 -- please READ, IN ITS ENTIRETY, ECO, The Name of the Rose
  Then, do this assignment. REPEAT: this is due by Wednesday, March 4.
• For Wednesday, March 18.
• For Monday, March 23.

Homework on Piers Plowman:

• For Wednesday, April 1
• For Monday, April 6.
• For Wednesday, April 8
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• For Monday, April 13
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• For Wednesday, April 15
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Homework on The Book of Margery Kempe:

• For Monday, April 20
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• For Monday, April 27
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• For Wednesday, April 29
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NOTE: HERE are the essential directions for connecting to the MSU IRC server and the essential commands for use in synchronous, or "real-time", class communication. You may want to print them out.