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Course business
• Chaucer challenge winners to be announced on Monday
• Papers due Monday
• FQ guide/headnotes
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
Book of Margery Kempe
• Genre
• Autobiography
–Hagiography
–Spiritual autobiography
–Can we consider this autohagiography?
Kempe
• Defying Categories
– Options for women
– Kempe’s marriage and secular life• Life with her husband – youth and age• Book 1.11 (page 426, 9th ed)• Book 1.76 (page 435, 9th ed)
Kempe
• Mystical experiences– 1.1 (page 425 9th ed)
– 1.79 (page 436, 9th ed)
– Mysticism and eroticism
Pilgrimage
• Jerusalem, heavenly and earthly – 1.28 (page 429, 9th ed)
• Bodily eye/spiritual eye
• Affective piety – Changes in representations of Christ
Kempe’s reaction to a Pietà
• Weeping—Affective piety– Book 1.28 (page 429 9th ed)
• The Compassion of Mary 1.79 (p. 436 9th ed)
Vision of the Passion
• Meditations on the Life of Christ
• Kempe comforts the Virgin Mary – 1.79 (page 436, 9th ed)
• Visions of torture– Connections to Anti-Semitism
York Play
• Context in medieval drama
– Mystery cycles
– Passion plays
– Corpus Christi plays
– Communal forms, connections to liturgy
Medieval Drama
• Non-professional
• Cross-dressing
• Early Records (REED)
• Pageant Wagons
• Feast of Corpus Christi
The York Play
• Crucifixion is one part of a sequence describing suffering
• The banality of evil l. 229 ff.
• The role of the spectator– L. 253
Medieval Section Overview
• Two linguistic and literary historical periods
• Old English—Anglo-Saxon
• Middle English
Canterbury Tales
• Estates Satire
• Miller’s Tale—Fabliau—Quitting
• Wife of Bath—Anti-feminist Satire
• Pardoner—
– Spiritual and physical ambiguity
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Text Structured through parallels
• The façade of courtly culture
• Testing of Knightly Identity