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Medieval in the Modern World Essay

Scans of the essay questions for the English and Cultural Studies undergraduate course Medieval in the Modern World coordinated by Andrew Lynch at the University of Western Australia. Of particular note is question 12 which asks students to write…

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Medieval in the Modern World

A second and third year undergraduate unit taught at The University of Western Australia. The unit was created by Andrew Lynch and features novels, poetry and film from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries that reinterpreted medieval…

The Last Viking teaching blog

A blog for the childrenâ€™s picture book â€˜The Last Vikingâ€™ by Australian authors Norman Jorgensen and James Foley (illustrator) published by the Western Australian publisher Fremantle Press. The story is about a boy who connects…

â€œReceptions: Medieval and Early Modern Cultural Appropriationsâ€ Conference Poster

This poster advertises the 2012 annual conference of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (at The University of Western Australia) and the Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group, which was held at UWA on 17-18 August 2012. The theme of the…

International Medievalism and Popular Culture

A pdf of the poster and programme cover of the International Medievalism and Popular Culture Symposium held at the University of Western Australia on December 4 and 5, 2011. The symposium featured sixteen delegates from Australia, Puerto Rico, the…

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A Day With J.R.R. Tolkien

This poster advertises â€˜A Day with J. R. R. Tolkienâ€™, an upcoming event at The University of Western Australia. Hosted by the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies and the Perth Medieval Group, â€˜A Day with J. R. R.…

Chaucer as Teaching Aid in the Colonies

The opinion piece,â€œCatallictics [mutatas dicere formas] An Introduction to New Speculations [In nova fert animus] takes it Latin from the first lines of Ovidâ€™s Metamorphoses (In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora; I tell now…

Tags: Chaucer, Chaucerian, Chaucerian source, child, children, childrenâ€™s education, classical education, education, juvenile, Ovid, Ovidâ€™s Metamorphoses, Prioressâ€™s Tale, tabula rasa

'Fictions of History' Unit

Undergraduate unit â€˜Fictions of Historyâ€™ offered at the Hobart campus of The University of Tasmania (Coordinator: Dr Rosemary Gaby). The unit investigates how the past is represented in literature and includes Sir Walter Scottâ€™s…

Tags: fiction, fictional, historiography, Hobart, Ivanhoe, literature, medievalism literature, Rosemary Gaby, Tasmania, universities, university, University of Tasmania, UTAS, Walter Scott

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