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SGGK overview
• Complex Structure
• Romance
– Genre concerned with Knightly Identity
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SGGK Overview
• Identity
–Honor
–Masculinity
–Sexuality
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SGGK Overview
• Poem explores
Knightly Character
The nature of Chivalry
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SGGK Overview
• Strong Christian component in the text
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The Book of Margery Kempe
• Important Terms
– Litteratus—amanuensis
– Mysticism
– Imitatio Christi
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Mysticism
• “an immediate knowledge of God attained in this present life through personal religious experience. It is primarily a state of prayer, and as such admits of various degrees from short and rare divine ‘touches’ to a practically permanent union with God”
• Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
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Book of Margery Kempe
• Genre
• Autobiography
–Hagiography
–Spiritual autobiography
–Can we consider this autohagiography?
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Kempe
• Defying Categories
– Options for women
– Kempe’s marriage and secular life• Life with her husband – youth and age• Book 1.11• Book 1.76
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Kempe
• Mystical experiences– 1.1
– 1.79
– Mysticism and eroticism
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Pilgrimage
• Jerusalem, heavenly and earthly 1.28
• Bodily eye/spiritual eye
• Affective piety – Changes in representations of Christ
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Early medieval
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Kempe’s reaction to a Pietà
• Weeping—Affective piety– Book 1.28
• The Compassion of Mary 1.79 (p. 397)
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Vision of the Passion
• Meditations on the Life of Christ
• Kempe comforts the Virgin Mary 1.79
• Visions of torture– Connections to Anti-Semitism
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York Play
• Context in medieval drama
– Mystery cycles
– Passion plays
– Corpus Christi plays
– Communal forms, connections to liturgy
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York Play
• Urban form
• Community based
• Chester, York, N-Town, Towneley
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Medieval Drama
• Non-professional
• Cross-dressing
• Early Records (REED)
• Pageant Wagons
• Feast of Corpus Christi
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The York Play
• Crucifixion is one part of a sequence describing suffering
• The banality of evil l. 229
• The role of the spectator– L. 253
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York Play
• Anachronism– Mahound (line 61)
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Controversy over Passion Plays
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Medieval Section Overview
• Two linguistic and literary historical periods
• Old English—Anglo-Saxon
• Middle English
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Beowulf
• Nature of the hero
• Structure of the poem
– Relation to issues of gender
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Canterbury Tales
• Estates Satire
• Miller’s Tale—Fabliau—Quitting
• Wife of Bath—Anti-feminist Satire
• Pardoner—
– Spiritual and physical ambiguity
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Text Structured through parallels
• The façade of courtly culture
• Testing of Knightly Identity
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Kempe
• Auto-hagiography
Affective piety