Web Reports

Choose a topic to research for your web report and follow the instructions below:

Instructions

Content

In assembling your content, you should give due consideration to what others will find useful.

Web Reports should contain:

1. A summary of the text (or general description of the topic), along with pertinent background on the author and/or historical context.
2. A bibliography consisting of (a) a list of primary sources (major editions), and (b) at least two printed secondary sources (more is naturally better, but don’t do more than five unless you are intending to expand this into your annotated bibliography). You should provide a short explanation of the content and/or argument of these sources, along with a brief note of your own response to them. This may be purely descriptive (e.g. ‘the author takes a Marxist approach’), or evaluative (e.g. ‘the author ignores a particular piece of evidence’).
3. A webliography consisting of (a) a list of links to any primary sources available on line, if any, and (b) a list of links to secondary materials available on the web. You must include the source of your links (e.g. ‘Professor Smith, Rutgers University’) and provide a brief, one-line description of the content and nature of the web site/web page.

Format

In formatting your web report, you should give due to consideration to presenting the materials in a form that others will find useful. A good model is the Wikipedia entry for Richard II. You shouldn’t worry about including images, as this provides a level of complexity for which we do not have time.

Web reports should be submitted to me as e-mail attachments in Microsoft Word, Rich Text, or another common format. If you know how to create a web page, you may submit your report to me as HTML. Please let me know if you have any problems with submitting your work in electronic form.

Due Date: End of week 9

Topics

Choose from one of the following topics, which are arranged by language. For some topics (e.g. Chrétien de Troyes), it may be possible for more than one person to do the same topic.

Welsh

1. Culhwch and Olwen
2. The Dream of Rhonabwy

Latin

1. The Arthurian section (and other relevant sections) of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain and/or the equivalent portions of Wace's Roman de Brut and La3amon's Brut
2. De ortu Waluuanii ( The Rise of Gawain)

Anglo-Norman

1. The Arthurian section (and other relevant sections) of Wace's Roman de Brut and/or the equivalent portions of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain and La3amon's Brut
2. Thomas of Britain, Tristan
3. Marie de France

French

1. Béroul, The Romance of Tristan
2. Chrétien de Troyes
3. The Prose Continuations to the romances of Chrétien de Troyes

English

1. The Arthurian section (and other relevant sections) of La3amon's Brut and/or the equivalent portions of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain and Wace's Roman de Brut.
2. The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell
3. The Awntyrs of Arthur
4. The Alliterative Morte Arthur
5. The Stanzaic Morte Arthur
6. Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur

German

1. Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival

Other Topics

1. Another text or author not listed here (your topic must be approved by me)
2. A thematic topic of your choice (which must be approved by me)