This shows that annotation isn’t just something new or academic. Instead, it’s something people have been doing for centuries to make sense of what they read and remember it. When we annotate today, we’re really just continuing a long tradition of thinking deeply and staying connected to the text.

With the Reformation, the Lutheran Reformation, and the spread of Protestantism in France during the time the books were written, many revolts happened. Thus, with Rabelais being from France and living during that period, he would have witnessed the "sedition...uproars and insurrections" that happened.

“Introduction to the Reform in the 16th Century.” Muse Protestant. museeprotestant.org/en/parcours/introduction-to-the-reform-in-the-16th-century/. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

Theleme is a place where the residents are allowed the freedom to do as they please unlike in a normal religious monastery where there are strict rules that must be upheld. Rabelais created Theleme in order to showcase his conception of an ideal religious community that is free. He created it as "a society free from religious constraints", as he believed that the rules of the church which restrict the people from things such as carnal desire was unnecessary as such desires "were not necessarily associated with sin" as they were thought to be by the church.

Ares, Leonardo Marcel. “Rabelais' Brother John: Humor and Humanism: Leonard M. Ares.” Rabelais' Brother John: Humor and Humanism | Leonard M. Ares, 2013, https://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Rabelais-Brother-John-Humor-and-Humanism.php

Hinds are known to be females of the deer species. In old English, many would refer to a doe, as they are now called, as a hind (Oxford English Dictionary). Hinds are specifically red deer over the age of 2 to 3 years old.

The addition of the word hind specificizes the type of deer in which the lord was hunting. These red deers tend live in grasslands that are near the woodlands(Red Deer). This gives us a look as to where the plot would be taking place as well as give us a look into what other types of animals may exist there by looking at what type of animals share the same habitat as the red deer.

“Hind, N. (1).” Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford UP, July 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/5883387696.

“Red Deer.” The Wildlife Trusts, www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/mammals/red-deer. Accessed 7 Mar. 2024.

Despite Chaucer's definition of holt as a "plantation", holt is more commonly agreed upon by scholars to mean "wood, woodland,[or] grove"(Willard 196). With this plus the definition of heath meaning "an area of open uncultivated land"(Oxford English Dictionary), the meaning of this sentence is thus easier to understand. The meanings then makes the sentence: the lord of the land chases female dears through the woodlands and open country till the evening before going home with the blowing of horns and baying of dogs and after dawn all the people had returned to the castle. This sentence gives us a good look at what the landscape was like during the time around the castle. The addition of the landscape allows readers to visualize the space that the characters in. This plus the fact that later in the same sentence it states that it takes till daylight for the hunters to return give us a sense of distance and a look into what it would look like if we lived in such a place at the time in which the story takes place.

Willard, Rudolph. “Chaucer’s ‘Holt and Heeth.’” American Speech, vol. 22, no. 3, 1947, pp. 196–98. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3181796. Accessed 7 Mar. 2024.

“Heath, N.” Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford UP, September 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/3738022932.

Krishna starts his dialogue in this chapter by stating that he is the source for both sins/vices and virtues. In this portion, he goes on to state virtues of the wise. Therefore, he is stating that all " wise [men are] said to be virtuous by definition"(383), while those who don't exhibit those virtues aren't wise but instead show ignorance.

Gupta, Bina. “‘Bhagavad Gītā’ as Duty and Virtue Ethics: Some Reflections.” The Journal of Religious Ethics, vol. 34, no. 3, 2006, pp. 373–95. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40017693. Accessed 30 Jan. 2024.

In this scene Medea resolves herself to kill her children so that no other person may get to do so. Medea shows her "true womanly nature"(105) through her love for her children. Throughout most of the drama, she is seen as opposing the womanly role she was made to inhabit, instead showing more of a feminist side. This scene is arguably the only scene in which she shows this side of her since learning of Jason's betrayal. Therefore, showing the audience a glimpse into what she might have been like before the betrayal.

van Zyl Smit, Betine. “MEDEA THE FEMINIST.” Acta Classica, vol. 45, 2002, pp. 101–22. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24595328. Accessed 30 Jan. 2024.