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Course business Chaucer challenge winners to be announced on Monday Papers due Monday FQ guide/headnotes

The Book of Margery Kempe Important Terms –Litteratus—amanuensis –Mysticism –Imitatio Christi

Mysticism “an immediate knowledge of God attained in this present life through personal religious experience. It is primarily a state of prayer, and as such admits of various degrees from short and rare divine ‘touches’ to a practically permanent union with God” Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church

Book of Margery Kempe Genre Autobiography –Hagiography –Spiritual autobiography –Can we consider this autohagiography?

Kempe Defying Categories –Options for women –Kempe’s marriage and secular life Life with her husband – youth and age Book 1.11 (page 426, 9 th ed) Book 1.76 (page 435, 9 th ed)

Kempe Mystical experiences –1.1 (page th ed) –1.79 (page 436, 9 th ed) –Mysticism and eroticism

Pilgrimage Jerusalem, heavenly and earthly –1.28 (page 429, 9 th ed) Bodily eye/spiritual eye Affective piety –Changes in representations of Christ

Early medieval

Kempe’s reaction to a Pietà Weeping—Affective piety –Book 1.28 (page th ed) The Compassion of Mary 1.79 (p th ed)

Vision of the Passion Meditations on the Life of Christ Kempe comforts the Virgin Mary –1.79 (page 436, 9 th ed) Visions of torture –Connections to Anti-Semitism

York Play Context in medieval drama –Mystery cycles –Passion plays –Corpus Christi plays –Communal forms, connections to liturgy

York Play Urban form Community based Chester, York, N-Town, Towneley

Medieval Drama Non-professional Cross-dressing Early Records (REED) Pageant Wagons Feast of Corpus Christi

The York Play Crucifixion is one part of a sequence describing suffering The banality of evil l. 229 ff. The role of the spectator –L. 253

York Play Anachronism –Mahound (line 61)

Controversy over Passion Plays

Medieval Section Overview Two linguistic and literary historical periods Old English—Anglo-Saxon Middle English

Beowulf Nature of the hero Structure of the poem –Relation to issues of gender

Canterbury Tales Estates Satire Miller’s Tale—Fabliau—Quitting Wife of Bath—Anti-feminist Satire Pardoner— –Spiritual and physical ambiguity

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Text Structured through parallels The façade of courtly culture Testing of Knightly Identity

Kempe Auto-hagiography Affective piety