1. SGGK overview Complex Structure Romance –Genre concerned with Knightly Identity

2. SGGK Overview Identity –Honor –Masculinity –Sexuality

3. SGGK Overview Poem explores Knightly Character The nature of Chivalry

4. SGGK Overview Strong Christian component in the text

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

6. 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

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

8. Kempe Defying Categories –Options for women –Kempe’s marriage and secular life Life with her husband – youth and age Book 1.11 Book 1.76

9. Kempe Mystical experiences –1.1 –1.79 –Mysticism and eroticism

10. Pilgrimage Jerusalem, heavenly and earthly 1.28 Bodily eye/spiritual eye Affective piety –Changes in representations of Christ

11. Early medieval

14. Kempe’s reaction to a Pietà Weeping—Affective piety –Book 1.28 The Compassion of Mary 1.79 (p. 397)

15. Vision of the Passion Meditations on the Life of Christ Kempe comforts the Virgin Mary 1.79 Visions of torture –Connections to Anti-Semitism

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

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

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

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

20. York Play Anachronism –Mahound (line 61)

21. Controversy over Passion Plays

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

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

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

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

27. Kempe Auto-hagiography Affective piety