Didactica Auxilia

The Life and Times of Geoffrey Chaucer — Timeline of Chaucer's life and political events.

Introduction to Chaucer's Language and World — Briefly outlines the changes in language prior to Chaucer.

General Prologue Lecture Notes — Sample lecture notes including some general information on pilgrimages and descriptions of the pilgrims.

Wife of Bath Lecture Notes — Sample lecture notes including discussion questions.

Knight's Tale Lecture Notes — Sample lecture notes including discussion questions.

Study Guide for The Miller's Tale

Study Guide for The Wife of Bath's Tale

Study Guide for Geoffrey Chaucer

Day by Day Plan — Sample plan for the medieval section of an Introduction to English Literature class.

Midterm Exam — Sample exam for the medieval section of an Introduction to English Literature class.

Annotated Bibliography — "Gift Giving and Commodity Exchange in Chaucer"

Franks Casket — Gives information and bibliography

A Gold Buckle at Sutton Hoo — Gives analysis of art form in relation to other cultures, includes footnotes.

Beowulf Assignment

Genre of Beowulf

Life of Beowulf

Germanic Heroic Code

Annotated Bibliography for Owein

Pentecostal Oath in The Tale of Sir Gareth of Orkney That was Called Bewmaynes — Lists where Malory's Pentecostal Oath was kept and broken in this book.

Pentecostal Oath in The Noble Tale of Sir Launcelot Du Lake — Lists where Malory's Pentecostal Oath was kept and broken in this book.

The Book of Tristran de Lyones — Character Involvement

The Fall of Arthur's Kingdom: Books VII and VIII — A walk through of the End of Malory's book.

Winchester and Caxton — Comparison of the difference between the Winchester Manuscript of Caxton's Malory.

Selective Arthur Bibliography — Deals mostly with Malory

Annotated Bibliography — Malory's Mordred

Annotated Bibliography — Guinevere

Timeline — Basic timeline of events in the fifteenth century

Monarchs — List of English monarchs and the dates of their reigns

John Lydgate Timeline — Timeline of Lydgate's life and contemporary events

The Works of John Lydgate — List of Lydgate's major works including manuscripts and editions

Lecture Notes on John Lydgate — To be used in conjunction with The Works of John Lydgate. Gives plot summaries of some of Lydgate's works

Robert Henryson Timeline — Timeline of Henryson's life and contemporary events

Lecture Notes on Robert Henryson

Robert Henryson Bibliography — Select bibliography on Robert Henryson

The Moral Fables of Aesop — Brief overview of the work and summary of each story

Verner's Law — This three part video is a hoot, and educational! Make sure to watch all three parts.

Sound Changes to Germanic — Goes through Grimm's and Verner's Laws.

Hayden White — Briefly discusses Theories of Historiography

The Four Humours — Overhead

Pearl and the Pearl-Poet Overview

Pearl-Poet Timeline

Pearl Summary

Cleanness

Monomyth