Background Reading for Course Literature
(click on links below)
Required
What were the Middle Ages all about?
Fate
and
Free Will
(entries in
The Catholic Encyclopedia
, 1913)
Feudalism
(also try the
Wikipedia entry
that is pretty good as of 5.27.10)
Chivalry
Courtly Love
The Code of Chivalry and the Rules of Courtly Love
The Camelot Project -- Arthurian literature
Optional
How is the Renaissance Different from the Middle Ages?
The Renaissance
End of Europe's Middle Ages
Defining the Middle Ages (an Age of Ages)
The Twelfth-Century Renaissance I
The Twelfth-Century Renaissance II
The High Middle Ages
The High and Late Middle Ages