Two weeks here:

Week 11/Tuesday, 30 November

Religious Texts: Drama, Passion, and Vision

Readings for the Week

The Pearl (c. 1380; dream vision in verse)

Julian of Norwich, A Revelation of Love (c. 1373, c. 1393) TBA

Margery Kempe, Book (early 15th c; prose "autobiography") TBA

"The Trope of the Scribe and the Question of Literary Authority in the Works of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe," Lynn Staley [Johnson]

"The Interior or Hidden Life: Medieval Mysticism in Nineteenth-Century American Evangelism," Theodore R. Hovet

Video: TBA

Week 12/Tuesday, 7 December

Readings for the Week

"December," from the Très Riches Heures of Jean, Duc de Berry (c. 1416; The Limbourg Brothers)

Drama, Passion, and Vision, con't

Ancrene Wisse, Book VIII [Guide for Anchoresses] (c. 1190-1230; religious treatise, prose)

excerpts from the Legenda Aurea [The Golden Legend] (hagiography; Latin prose) TBA

Second Shepherd's Play (by 1420; verse drama)

Video: TBA

In-class, informal, presentation of papers-in-progress