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Extracts from the Melbourne Newspaper, The Argus

A series of extracts from The Argus ranging from 1878 to 1880. They tell of the Kelly Gang's exploits and their encounters with colonial Victorian law enforcement. A few of the extracts towards the end of the list include descriptions of the…

Tags: Armour, Australian landscape, bush, bushranger, bushrangers, crime, criminal, Edward Kelly, Kelly Gang, knight, knights, landscape, law, legal, legend, legends, media, Melbourne, myth, mythology, Ned Kelly, police, stealing, theft

Early English Portraiture

In this Western Mail article from 1930, the author begins by providing a somewhat negative review of Thomas Hoccleve’s poem, “The Regiment of Princes”. Asserting that the poem “looks better than it reads”, the author…

Deaths of Great Men - Chaucer

A miscellaneous piece titled 'The Deaths of Great Men' remarks how 'deeply interesting' it is to ponder the death-bed scene of those geniuses who are immortalized by their fame. Hallet, the great physiologist, died taking his pulse, it is said.…

Tags: 'non tua te moveant, ballad-making, Bishop Newton, Chaucer, Chaucer's death, colonial, Colonial Literary Journal and Weekly Miscellany of Useful Information, Godfrey Kneller, Hallett, literary magazine, literature, Lord Chesterfield, Nelson, Pope, sed publica vota'

Crunch time: making money from a medieval extreme sport

This online newspaper article by David Wilson appeared in the My Small Business section of The Sydney Morning Herald. The article features an interview with Rod Walker about his business Full Tilt. The Bathurst-based business run fully costumed…

Tags: Armour, Bathurst, battle, David Wilson, entertainment, Full Tilt, helmet, jousting, knights, lance, My Small Business, New South Wales, NSW, Rod Walker, shield, sport, sword, The Sydney Morning Herald, tournament, war

Critical Article by Brian Matthews

Abstract: Matthews finds a unity in the arrangement of stories in While the Billy Boils. The chronological nature of the stories, the use of rumour and the consistent use of time and distance are all elements that support the structure of the…

Tags: Australian, Australian poetry, bush, bush poem, bush poet, bush poetry, Henry Lawson, medieval obsession with death, poem, poet, poetry

Chaucerâ€™s Portrait Gallery

Argus 1940 Sat 21 Sept Chaucer's Portraits-1.pdf

G.H. suggests that the English novel is indebted to Chaucerâ€™s literary device of throwing together people from assorted social grades to interact. The writer notes that few people read Chaucer for pleasure but if they did master Middle English…

Tags: Chaucer, companionship, English, Englishness, Great poets, literary device, literature, novel, novels

Chaucer. [From various sources].

This column from the Colonial Literary Journal in 1844 provides a biography of medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Quoting from an unnamed source, the article names Chaucer alongside Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton as one of the ‘Four Great English…

Tags: biography, Dante Alghieri (c.1265-1321), Early Australian Literary Tastes, Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599), English language, Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400), Hainault, heresy, John Milton (1608â€“1674), John of Gaunt (1340â€“1399), John Wycliffe (d.1384), medieval poet, medieval poetry, poet, poetry, William Shakespeare (1564â€“1616)

Blacktown Medieval Fayre

This online newspaper article by Ben McClellan appeared in the Blacktown Advocate on May 21, 2012. It reports on the recent Blacktown (western Sydney) Medieval Fayre. According to the article, the Fayre featured medieval-themed stalls, demonstrations…

Tags: Armour, Ben McClellan, Blacktown, Blacktown Advocate, Blacktown Medieval Fayre, costume, fair, jousting, knights, New South Wales, newspaper, NSW, re-creation, re-enactment, Sydney

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