10/30/13
In Class:
Journal-- How do your daily choices (of behavior, speech, etc.) affect the lives of others? Use examples to illustrate your point.
Each group from yesterday's research project polished and then presented their posters.
Brief lecture and discussion on "The Passion of King Edmund" by Ælfric, including martyrdom and hagiography.
martyr: a person who suffers and/or dies for his or her beliefs or people.
hagiography: the biographical writing of a saint's life, miracles, or passion.
In the medieval period in Anglo-Saxon period, most of the power of literacy fell in the hands of Christian monks. This resulted in a) the proliferation of religious texts (especially saints' lives), and b) the increased evolution and incorporation of Latinate and French language (i.e., Anglo-Norman dialect).
Hagiography helps us, once again, to reconcile the active, heroic traditions of Germanic culture with passive, virtuous traditions of Christianity.
Exit ticket: Name one martyr other than King Edmund.
Homework:
Read "Judith."
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