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Adaptation: Studies in Transmission between Cultures and Forms

A 2011 undergraduate unit run by Associate Professor Frances Bonner in the School of English, Media and Art History at the St Lucia campus of The University of Queensland. Week 7 of the unit uses Tolkienâ€™s books informed by the early medieval…

Tags: Brisbane, fiction, J.R.R. Tolkien, literature, Qld, Queensland, The Lord of the Rings, The University of Queensland, Tolkien, universities, university

'Performance of excerpt from Aucassin et Nicolette'

This performance of an excerpt from Aucassin et Nicolette was performed by Alana Bennett on November 1, 2012 as part of her MEMS (Medieval and Early Modern Studies) Honours dissertation at the University of Western Australia. The four minute film…

Alana Bennett - Essay on the Society for Creative Anachronism

A student essay on the Society for Creative Anachronism submitted by Alana Bennett as part of her assessment for â€˜ENGL2238: The Medieval in the Modern Worldâ€™, a second year English unit delivered by Professor Andrew Lynch at The…

Literature and Culture: Representations of the Medieval

A fully online second-year undergraduate unit offered by Macquarie University through Open Universities Australia. The unit covers various aspects of medievalism, including William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Victoria, the…

Tags: Arthur, Arthurian, Arts and Crafts Movement, cinema, film, Gothic, King Arthur, Macquarie University, Marion Zimmer Bradley, online, Open Universities Australia, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Umberto Eco, Vic, Victoria, Victorian medievalism, William Morris

Magna Carta

On the seven hundred and twentieth anniversary of the first issue of Magna Carta (in 1215), this article in the Western Mail outlines the charterâ€™s significance for English history and notes that special lessons had been delivered in…

Theatres of Long Ago. Some Quaint Customs. Address by Professor Murdoch

West Australian 1913 Tues 29 April Theatre Medieval Liturgy Plays Guilds.pdf

A newspaper article regarding an address made by one Professor Murdoch to the Perth Literary Society in 1913. It discusses the origin and development of English drama with a particular focus on the early involvement of the church and clergy in…

Tags: education, English drama, lesson, medieval education, medieval morality play, medieval play, medieval plays, morality play, morality plays, Perth Literary Society, university, Western Australia

‘Lecturer says our Universities are still “Mediaeval”’, The Argus, 7 January 1955

Lecturer says our universities still medieaval_The Argus_7 January 1955_p6.pdf

This article from The Argus in 1955 quotes Mr W. A. Townsley, a lecturer in Political Science, on the outlook of Australian Universities as ‘still mediaeval’. Criticising lecturing on the reasoning that it turns out ‘poorly…

Tags: authority, classroom, education, lecturer, lecturing, pedagogy, specialist, teacher, teaching, teaching methods, university, W. A. Townsley

Ancient Arts Fellowship Educational Sessions, Canberra

Ancient Arts Fellowship, Inc. is a medieval re-enactment group based in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. They focus on the ‘Dark Ages’, or early medieval period, especially the 8th century through to the Norman invasion of…

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