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York Minster Bells

An image of the recasting of the York Minster Bells, which are described as being "the heaviest ringing in England." The article states Taylor & Company of Longborough, Leicester, who worked on the bells, were contracted to cast the carillon for…

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Universityâ€™s Coat of Arms

Universitys Coat of Arms_Western Mail_16 January 1930_p25.pdf

Following a request from the University of Melbourne for a coloured copy of its coat of arms to incorporate into a stained glass window, this article informs readers that the University of Western Australia had commissioned George Kruger Gray, an…

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Shakespeare Unit

Level 2 undergraduate unit â€˜Shakespeareâ€™ coordinated by Peter Eckersall at the University of Melbourne. In part the unit investigates film and television adaptations of Shakespeareâ€™s plays, and two plays set in the medieval period…

Tags: adaption, drama, dramatic, film, films, Hamlet, MacBeth, Melbourne, Peter Eckersall, Shakespeare, television, universities, university, University of Melbourne, Victoria, William Shakespeare

Sex, Power, and Chivalry â€“ Medieval to Modern Literature

An undergraduate unit taught by Louise Dâ€™Arcens at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales. The unit begins with literature from the medieval period, including texts by Malory, Marie de France, the Gawain poet and Troubadours,…

Tags: Alfred Tennyson, cinema, Clint Eastwood, fiction, film, literature, Louise Dâ€™Arcens, Miguel de Cervantes, New South Wales, NSW, poetry, universities, university, University of Wollongong, William Morris, Wollongong

Mythistory: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the Medieval Imagination

Aposter for the second and third year undergraduate course ‘Mythistory’ offered at The University of Western Australia. The course examines popular science fiction and fantasy films and literature of the twentieth and twenty-first…

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…

Fantasy, Fairy Tale and Childhood: The Fantastic Imagination in European Culture (UWA)

One of two posters for the second and third year undergraduate course ‘Fantasy, Fairy Tale and Childhood’ offered at The University of Western Australia. The course includes European folk and fairy tales, and examines their place …

Fantasy, Fairy Tale and Childhood: The Fantastic Imagination in European Culture

One of two posters for the second and third year undergraduate course ‘Fantasy, Fairy Tale and Childhood’ offered at The University of Western Australia. The course includes European folk and fairy tales, and examines their place …

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