Medieval Annotated Bibliographies Samples For Students

How Does Early and Medieval Art and Architecture Influence Modern Culture?

Annotated Bibliography
Craig, M. (2011). Arcade: Moments not Monuments. Art and Architecture Journal , 89-92.

Present day buildings and architectural designs are usually fantastic, leaving one to ponder where such designs oriented from. In his article, Craig discusses some of the most famous monuments that are found in the globe and their underlying ideas and concept behind their designs. Craig states that such architectural designs have been embedded in the architectural designs of the present days. Landmarks such as the Pyramids of Egypt are termed so because the ideologies have stood the test of time, and this can be ...

Present day buildings and architectural designs are usually fantastic, leaving one to ponder where such designs oriented from. In his article, Craig discusses some of the most famous monuments that are found in the globe and their underlying ideas and concept behind their designs. Craig states that such architectural designs have been embedded in the architectural designs of the present days. Landmarks such as the Pyramids of Egypt are termed so because the ideologies have stood the test of time, and this can be manifested in the core concepts of medieval art and architecture. This article is a vital resource ...

Chris Altman is an English professor at the University of South Carolina. He has taken two articles about The Battle of Maldon each focusing on different themes, and combined them in order to better understand Byrhtnoð's strategy using the terrain. He introduces his argument suggesting that “Byrhtnoð arguably exploited the terrain to maximize the Viking enemy casualties caused by arrow volleys launched from the western shore” (3). The themes from the two articles are (a) the military strategy and weaponry of the Anglo-Saxons and (b) a geological analysis of the site of the battle.

Altman includes a sketch of the battle strategy. ...

Annotated Bibliography

Boccaccio, Giovanni and John Payne (Trans.). The Decameron. New York: Walter Black Inc., n.d. Kindle.
Boccaccio is considered as Chaucer’s counterpart in Italy. The book is a compilation of tales like The Canterbury Tales. He writes of the decadent side of women during the Medieval Age. Almost all of the 100 (Decameron) stories—10 stories for each of the 10 days—are about some illicit affair. Even nuns in a convent get involved with a man. The women in the stories seem to be mostly from the middle or upper class of Italian society. The stories are irreverent descriptions of ...

Garley, Matt, Slade, Benjamin and Marina Terkourafi. “Hwaet! LOL! Common Formulaic Functions in Beowulf.” Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Association 45 (1): 111-126.

This paper identifies six different formulaic functions that appear both in modern blogs and in Old English poetry. These six are discourse-structuring, filler, gnomic, epithetic, tonic and acronymic. The commonality of these linguistic features is interesting given the amount of time that has passed between the two genres. This shows that the purpose of communication has remained constant, at least in these areas.

Godfrey, J.E. “Beowulf as Martial Epic.” Unpublished dissertation, Texas Tech University, 2011. http://repositories.tdl.org/ttu-ir/handle/2346/19379

This dissertation focuses on the similarities between Beowulf and other epics of war. The conventions of this type of epic are discussed, as well as the rhetorical devices that the martial epic typically encompasses. This is ...

Introduction

Harwood, Britton J. "Gawain and the Gift", PMLA. (1991) pp. 483–99
Borroff, Marie. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, Pearl: Verse Translations. New York: Norton 2001. pp. 58.
Armitage, Simon Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation. New York: Norton. 2011 p.22

In this translated article by the title; “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” the author brings into the lime light the various issues regarding to the loyalty of the main character Gawain. This poem is component of the medieval anecdote practice, which means its focal point on the ...

In the work of John Gardner entitled Structure and Tone in the Second Shepherds’ Play, the author methodically analyzed the construction of the piece. Gardner stated in his work that the Second Shepherds’ Play included the Christian significance of the number 3. He added that all throughout the play the structure revolved around the number 3. In relation to this, Gardner discussed that the play focused on the 3 Shepherds named Coll, Gyb, and Daw, then it began with 3 soliloquies, which opened the first of the 3 distinct movements. It treated the 3 themes in relation to the ...

Williams, Eric. "Capitalism and slavery." Chapel Hill 215 (1944).

This interesting book compares modern-day capitalism to slavery. It is a different look on slavery, instead of the standard view, it offers an insight on how people are slaves to modern capitalism, seemingly working foot-to-mouth just to buy products that they cannot afford. It compares the history of slavery and gives some details on how the two can be related. It connects everything throughout society in order to give a bigger picture, and helps people understand what is happening in the global economy. The book explains how this type of slavery has been ongoing since medieval times, making people believe that ...

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Galileo Galilei was an Italian physicist, astronomer and astronomer largely recognized for his contributions towards the scientific revolution. He laid down the basis of modern astronomy and largely supported the work of Copernicus. He is largely known for his heliocentric views in that he acknowledged the existence of the earth and the other planets including earth revolve around the sun, which is stationary. His heliocentric views brought him into conflict with the Catholic Church since was considered to be challenging the then pope Urban the eighth’s authority. He was then arrested, tried and convicted of heresy upon which ...

Batt, Catherine. "'Sir Gawain And The Green Knight' And The Idea Of Righteousness." Modern Language Review 88.4 (1993): 937-938. Print.

Catherine Batt’s argument is to agree with scholar Gerald Morgan that a proper reading of mediaeval texts requires understanding the mind of the person or people that created it. There are particular fourteenth-century ideas emphasized in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, such as the pentangle, the symbolism of which must be heavily considered when reading the poem. In other words, modern readers should not apply modern views to the poem, such as views about ...