By Sarah Nim (Fall 2022) Geoffrey Chaucer was born somewhere in the early 1340s in the Middle Ages. Little of his life outside of his work with the Crown is known. He entered the world of aristocracy by marrying the daughter of a knight and is considered one of the […]
poetry
By Scott Williams (Fall 2022) The book of Judith was written originally in Hebrew. The poem was adapted from the Book of Judith in the “late 10th-century[by an] Anglo-Saxon abbot and writer” (Greenblat 109). The Hebrews in the poem are the good guys and the ones victorious against the Assyrians. […]
By Mia Tewes (Fall 2022) There is a strong presence of religion in John Milton’s Samson Agonistes. There are both direct and indirect character comparisons in Milton’s writing that highlight the important role religion plays. This includes the positive and negative sides, like hope and punishment. Samson Agonistes tells a […]
By Melissa DeFabritiis (Fall 2022) The fourteenth-century poem The King of Tars by an unknown author tells the tale of religious and racial tensions between the white Christians of Tars and the Black Muslims of Damascus, and details the white Tarsians expressing feelings of superiority over their Black Damascan counterparts. […]
By Jeremy Whitman-Kinghorn (Fall 2022) Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work that offers an unrivaled glimpse into medieval life in 14th-century England. Written in Middle English in the 14th century, Chaucer wrote what was clearly from his perspective a quite accurate dissection of the social structure of the […]
By Heiner Badilla Sanchez (Fall 2022) Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum translated as “Hail God King of the Jades (Jews)” is a mixture of several concepts put together through the lens of Emilia Lanier. This particular piece is important for numerous reasons especially within the context of the modern society we […]