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

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

3. 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

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

5. 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)

6. Kempe Mystical experiences –1.1 (page 425 9 th ed) –1.79 (page 436, 9 th ed) –Mysticism and eroticism

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

8. Early medieval

12. Kempe’s reaction to a Pietà Weeping—Affective piety –Book 1.28 (page 429 9 th ed) The Compassion of Mary 1.79 (p. 436 9 th ed)

13. 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

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

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

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

17. 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

18. York Play Anachronism –Mahound (line 61)

19. Controversy over Passion Plays

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

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

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

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

25. Kempe Auto-hagiography Affective piety