Thus ends a beautiful poem by Christine
This is really interesting that in this last stanza, Christine writes herself into the poem.
18 Matching Annotations
- Apr 2018
-
www.indiana.edu www.indiana.edu
-
-
Esther, Judith and Deborah
These stanzas are all centered around shedding positive light on women
-
To be both woman and champion
Example of Christine's support for women?
-
Lilies
Are Lilies a part of a common saying or a reference to something? Is she even talking about the flower or another Lily?
-
Fortune
Personifies 'fortune'
-
Who for a long time was exiled
Why was he exiled, and how was he able to come back to just take the throne?
-
- Mar 2018
-
sourcebooks.fordham.edu sourcebooks.fordham.edu
-
Item, sheepskins. Item,
Why are these sentences phrased as such with the word "Item" first, as if written like a list?
-
poultry or other meat
All of these recipes involve the cooking of some form of meat
-
SWAN. Pluck him like a chicken or a duck and scald or do again [in hot water]; put him on a spit skewered in four places and roast him whole with beak and feet and pluck not his head; eat with yellow pepper sauce
This recipe in particular seems so simple; it's interesting to see how bland and mundane these old recipes are in comparison to the recipes that exist today
-
but lay down and drank and ate beside the corpse of his master, all dead within the wood
So is this article about loyalty then?
-
Macaire
From a legend: dog that knows who murdered its master
-
both a cookbook
It's interesting that a man would write a cookbook?
-
-
sites.fas.harvard.edu sites.fas.harvard.edu
-
When the shepherd is weak, the wolf shits wool
meaning?
-
churl
a medieval peasant
-
Where people are not very brave
Does this reference to something?
-
Except this -
Why is this an exception?
-
- Feb 2018
-
sourcebooks.fordham.edu sourcebooks.fordham.edu
-
Drogo, bishop of Terouanne, and count Baldwin
What inspired these two to establish this peace?
-
from the beginning of Advent to the octave of Epiphany and from the beginning of Lent to the octave of Easter, and from the feast of Rogations [the Monday before Ascension Day] to the octave of Pentecost.
Why these particular days?
-