Melissa in Australia Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 I am ordering books for next year( school year starts here in Australia in January).if you follow WTM and are/ have used the year 10 reading list middle ages, which books did you pick? I am trying to steer away from to many church heavy books. thank you for your help:001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starr Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 :bigear: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle in AL Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Not on the list, but my favorite for the time period is The Once and Future King by T.H. White. It was written in the 1940's but is about King Arthur. I also enjoyed Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Armitage, couldn't get though the Tolkein version. Utopia was good too (I think that's on the list). Beowulf by Heaney-excellent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane in NC Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Ecclesiastical History of the British People (Venerable Bede—Wallace-Hadrill translation); Islam: a Very Short Introduction (Ruthven) ; Beowulf (Heaney); Mabinogion; The Once and Future King (White); The Inferno (Dante); Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Tolkien); Canterbury Tales (Chaucer); The Prince (Machiavelli); Richard II (Shakespeare); Henry IV, Part I (Shakespeare) Teaching Company Lectures: Selected lectures (medieval) from Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, Professor Thomas F.X. Noble Inferno was the clear winner on this list. There was a terrific thread on Gawain previously. I'll try to find it for you later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted November 6, 2009 Author Share Posted November 6, 2009 thank you all very much. I find it so helpful finding out what other people had success with . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 On our list: Consolation of Philosophy Beowulf Once and Future King Sir Gawain (Tolkein translation) Canterbury Tales-selections Inferno Hamlet-saw production, will also read Principia Mathematica-selections The Prince A Man for All Seasons-book, then movie So far, he has loved both Consolation of Philosophy and Beowulf. We may not get through it all. May also add more Rennaissance math\science stuff as that is his interest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anissarobert Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 This is the reading list for the great books discussion class I'm leading this year. We have 2 seniors, 1 junior and 3 sophomores in the class. It was hard to decide what to do. The Aeneid is on the list because we didn't get to it last year. Aeneid by Virgil (any edition) Confessions by St. Augustine (Chadwick-trans.) City of God by St. Augustine (selections) (Dods-trans.) Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Heaney-trans.) The Divine Comedy by Dante (all parts if possible) (Pinsky-trans.) Everyman (any edition) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Boroff-trans.) The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer (Coghill-trans.) The Prince by Machiavelli (Mansfield-trans.) Utopia by More (Adams-trans.) Faustus by Marlowe (any edition) Julius Caesar by Shakespeare (coupled with some writings of Plutarch) Hamlet by Shakespeare Other plays by Shakespeare as time permits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane in NC Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 As promised, link to fabulous thread on Gawain. Jane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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