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'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…

â€˜Living by the swordâ€™

The anonymous online article ‘Living by the sword’ appears in volume 4 of the Leatherwood Online – Tasmania’s Journal of Discovery website and was posted in June/July 2007. It is about professional swordsman Stephen Hand of…

Tags: â€˜Living by the swordâ€™, Adult education, education, Elizabethan, George Silver, Hobart, Leatherwood Online, performance, rapier, re-creation, Stephen Hand, Stocatta School of Defence, sword, swordsman, Tas, Tasmania, Tasmaniaâ€™s Journal of Discovery, Vincentio Saviolo, website.

â€˜Alfred Was Great Kingâ€™

‘Alfred Was Great King’ is an anonymous article that appeared in the Charters Towers, Queensland, newspaper The Northern Miner in 1954. The article is about the ninth-century Anglo-Saxon/English king Alfred of Wessex, or Alfred the Great.…

Tags: Alfred the Great, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Charters Towers, Danes, education, England, King Alfred, law, literature, navy, Old English Chronicle, Qld, Queensland, The Northern Miner, vikings, Wessex.

C. E. W. Bean Oxford University heraldic shield

Entry on Australian War Memorial website: Black painted curved metal shield designed as a wall plaque, with the heraldic crest of Oxford University. The crest features an open book bearing the motto 'Dominus illuminatio mea' , with two crowns above…

Hertford College Oxford heraldic shield : C E W Bean

Entry on Australian War Memorial website: Red painted curved metal shield designed as a wall plaque, with the heraldic crest of Hertford College, Oxford University, on the front in the form of a gold hart's head surmounted by a gold heraldic dagger,…

C. E. W. Bean Oxford University heraldic shield 2nd

Entry on Australian War Memorial website: Flat wooden shield designed as a wall plaque, painted with the heraldic crest of Oxford University. The crest features an open book bearing the motto 'Dominus illuminatio mea' , with two crowns above the book…

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

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