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Papers On Medieval Times
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Medieval University Life
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A 6 page essay that discusses common areas between university life in the Middle Ages and today. During the Middle Ages, centers of learning began to crow up in several European cities, such as Paris and Bologna, Italy (Wiesner, Ruff and Wheeler 152). Beginning in the twelfth century, student life became a feature of the towns that gave birth to nascent universities. There are an abundance of surviving primary sources from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries that reveal what university life was like for the medieval students. Despite the passage of centuries, these sources reveal many common features between medieval university life and the present. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: khmedu.rtf
Miller's Tale & the Second Shepherd's Play
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A 5 page research paper/essay that contrasts and compares Geoffrey Chaucer's Miller Tale from his Canterbury Tales and the medieval mystery play The Second Shepherd's Play. The writer discusses the similarities and differences between these contemporary medieval works. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: khmtssp.rtf
Mohammed, Charlemagne & Origins of Europe
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A 7 page essay that analyzes Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse's 1983 text Mohammed, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe: Archeology and the Pirenne Thesis, which is part of a continuing body of historical scholarship that addresses the nature and validity of Henri Pirenne's famous thesis concerning the origins of the medieval period. This examination demonstrates that, while the fringe elements of Pirenne's thesis can be disputed, the basic premise, which is that Rome did not disappear as a viable political entity quickly, but rather was a victim of gradual decline, is largely substantiated by recent research. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: khmohcha.rtf
Monks in Medieval France / Vows Of Chastity ?
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6 pages in length. Medieval monks.. did they adhere to their vows of chastity, poverty, obedience, and sometimes silence? Research suggests not. Evidence points to excesses in physical pleasures, especially in the realms of sex and food. The sometimes perverted sexual habits of some of the monks has been passed down through anecdotal records. Bibliography included.
Filename: Monks.wps
Morris Bishop/ "The Middle Ages"
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A 5 page review of Morris Bishop's classic text on the Middle Ages, a book that has been considered a definitive text on that historical period from its initial publication in 1968. In this single, yet absorbing, volume, Bishop relates the entirety of the thousand year period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khbishma.doc
Order of The Canterbury Tales
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A 6 page research paper that discusses the ordering of Chaucer's medieval masterpiece. The writer discusses what is known as the "b" group order and how it differs from the ordering of the tales in the Ellesmere manuscript. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: khbgr.rtf
Parzival/Honor in the Middle Ages
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A 4 page essay that discusses Wolfram von Eschenbach's thirteenth century German epic, in which there is an emphasis on a knight's honor that is directly associated with combat. In this epic, the hero, Parzival, is on a journey that takes him to the Holy Grail, but more importantly, he is also on a spiritual journey of enlightenment that demonstrates the German medieval attitude toward the association between honor and combat. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: khparzi.rtf
Questions on the Crusades
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A 6 page research paper that answers 4 specific questions covering issues pertaining to the Crusades. Topics covered include why Christians won the First Crusade; why religious tolerance dissolved in Islamic Spain; Why the Byzantine emperor expected help from Rome; and Richard the Lionheart as a strategic leader. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: khcruqu.rtf
Reciprocal Relationships in Yvain
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A 5 page essay that analyzes the reciprocity of relationships in Chretien de Troyes' twelfth century epic poem Yvain, the Knight of the Lion. The writer argues that the message that these relationships transmit to the reader is that that give and take is necessary to the maintenance of society in general. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khyvain.rtf
Religion and the Enlightenment
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A paper which considers the perspective of Voltaire, Kant and Condorcet on organised religion, and the extent to which the Enlightenment thinkers had a direct impact on social change. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: JLenlgrelig.rtf
Religious Art: Russia & Franc c15th C
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(7 pp) If some one wants to have you "buy
something "- whether it is an idea, a belief or an
item, there are ways to go about that, that will
make you more susceptible to that new thing. Some
of these early marketing principles were put into
place in both Russia and France to encourage pagan
converts, to view the "new ways of the Church
more favorably."
Filename: BBeCHart.doc