The Catholic University of America

ENG 352

Spring 2008

Dr Wright

wrights@cua.edu

Chaucer and His Age II

Bede's (d. 735) account of Pope Gregory's first encounter with the British

Pope Gregory's letter to Abbot Mellitus (601)

Tomb of John Gower (d. 1405) in Southwark Cathedral

Book of Durrow: (late 7th century): Carpet page

Book of Durrow : man (Gospel of Mathhew)

Book of Durrow: Lion (Gospel of Mark)

Caedmon's Hymn (earliest known Northumberland version, MS from c. 800)

Battle of Maldon (original Old English text)

Site of the Battle of Maldon (991) in modern photographs

Franks Casket (early 8th century)

Ruthwell Cross(mid-eighth century)

Bayeu x Tapestry (Battle of Hastings, 1066)

Monastic Scriptorium: Transition from orality to book culture

Arthur, Gawain, and the Green Knight: British Library, MS. Cotton Nero, A.x

Chaucer and his audience (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS. 61)

Earliest portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer (Thomas Hoccleve, De Regimine Principum, c. 1412)

Chaucer's Pilgrims (Ellesmere Manuscript)

Lady Fortune and her wheel (MS in British Library, 14th century)

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