Welcome to the web page for the Honors Seminar:
Sex, Love, and Parchment.
Here you will find additional notes on topics discussed in class and books to be read for class, along with some links that may be useful in your research.

Schedule News

Due to the fact that the university regards the Wednesday before Thanksgiving as a Friday, we will not have class that day. Our next class will be Dec. 2. A revised schedule for the remainder of the semester follows.

Wed., Dec. 2
"Griselda" story from Decameron
That is: the tenth story of the tenth day, pp. 813-827 in the Penguin Classics edition. For a little background information on Boccaccio and the Decameron, read 21-25 in the Penguin Classics edition, and click here.
Selected reports on secondary literature due.
First draft of term paper (writing assignment #5) due.
Wed., Dec. 9
Chaucer's Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
Summing up.
Wed., Dec. 16.
Revised, final term paper due.
Turn in at my office, Armitage 470, or to secretary on Armitage 4th floor by elevators, before 4:30 pm.
On the term paper, please read "Notes on the term paper" and "Notes on documentation styles" in the next section below.

Notes on writing assignments

Reading and Discussion Notes

Parzival: A Plot Summary

Research links

The Medieval Feminist Index
Rutgers Libaries page
For IRIS, the MLA Bibliography, and other catalogs and indexes. Note that, at present, IRIS may not work from America Online.

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