Riddles 3, 23, 25, 26, 89 (PDF); De Hamel, pp. 1-44; Cædmon Story; O’Keeffe (Electronic Reserves); Poems from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Electronic Reserves). Note on the readings.

Class cancelled. Please do the following reading for next week:

Beowulf; Chickering's “Backgrounds”; Niles, “Reconceiving Beowulf: Poetry as Social Praxis”

Mini web project due

Psalms: 1 (Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly); 6, Domine ne in furore… ("Lord, rebuke me not in thy fury"); 37, Domine ne in furore… ("Lord, rebuke me not in thy fury"); 50 Miserere mei Deus… ("Have mercy on me, O God"); 68 (St Albans 67.2) (Let God arise; let his enemies be scattered); 95 (O come, let us sing unto the Lord); 150 (Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary); Paris Psalter (in Special Collections); St Albans Psalter: Introduction and assigned psalms; First four pages of White, “Books of Hours and the Bridwell Hours”; The Owl and the Nightingale

Note: The Medieval Manuscripts conference will be held on Friday, October 5-Sunday, October 7. You may wish to attend for one or all of the days. Registration is free.

HTML Workshop 2

“What is mouvance?”; Case Study, especially the first three lyrics
“What is a contrafactum?”and the lyrics linked at the bottom of the essay; “Stond wel, Moder, under rode,” §33 (be sure to read the note linked to the right of the section number)

Group Web Project Due

General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales; Hilmo, “Framing the Canterbury Pilgrims for the Aristocratic Readers of the Ellesmere Manuscript”; Parks, “Oral Tradition and the Canterbury Tales”