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Children's Literature Unit

Undergraduate English Literature unit ‘Children’s Literature’ offered at the Fremantle campus of The University of Notre Dame (Australia). The unit features a number of texts that have aspects of medievalism, including those by…

Tags: C.S. Lewis, child, children, fiction, Fremantle, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, J.M. Barrie, juvenile, literature, Narnia, Notre Dame University, Peter Pan, WA, Western Australia

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

Celtic Blood, James John Loftus

Celtic Blood is the debut novel by Australian author James John Loftus, published in July, 2011. The novel is set in 13th century Scotland and the conflict between Anglo-Norman-influenced royal knights living in the lowlands, and independent…

Tags: advertisement, Anglo-Norman, Celtic, Celtic Blood, Highlanders, James John Loftus, knights, literature, MacBeth, novel, Scotland, William Shakespeare, witchcraft.

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

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…

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.

"Men Call Me a Fool"

Men call me Fool_Sunday Times_13 Oct 1929_p29.pdf

This article provides a short review of Dan Totheroh’s historical novel “Men Call me Fool”, published by Selwyn and Blount in 1929. Set in fourteenth-century France at the court of King Francis I, the plot centres on a …

Tags: Adonis, book, book review, books, court, duchess, fool, Francis I (1494-1547), hunchback, king, literature, medieval France, nobles, professional fool, review, tragedy, troubadour

'The Last Viking' Display

A digital photograph of popular Viking items in a display case at the State Library of Western Australia. The display advertises a book signing session by Norman Jorgensen for his 2011 childrenâ€™s book The Last Viking, illustrated by James…

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