<font face=Arial>King's College London essays

King's College London essays

I began my MA in English (Medieval Language and Literature) in September 2004, having previously studied French and Drama at Queen Mary UL. I will put here my essays for this course so that I may find them in the future.

The Destiny of English: an essay I wrote as part of my application. (April 04)
Research Skills Essay - Caedmon's Hymn: Certainly not my best essay, but a start. (January 05)
Representing Medieval London Essay #1 - St Erkenwald and New Troy: a look at the alliterative poem St Erkenwald and how it illustrates medieval London's desire for the Trojan origins. (March 05)
Medieval London Essay #2 - The Aelfheah incident and Anglo-Saxon London: a look at how the martyrdom of St Alphege may have affected how London was perceived in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. (April 05)
Making the Middle Ages Essay - Chivalry and the Conduct of Knights: a look at the conduct of knights in Parzival and William Marshal and the notion of chivalry developed. (April/May 05)
Germanic Philology Essay - German Christian Vocuabulary: a look at the differing degrees of influence the Anglo-Saxon and Gothic missions had over the Christian vocabularies adopted by Old High German and Old Saxon. (May 05)
FINAL DISSERTATION: Was Anglo-French antagonism behind the decline of French in medieval England?: a 15,000 word study into the political tensions between the english and the French in the Middle ages, asking whether or not this antagonism had any effect on the status of written French in England, or of French upon the English language. (September 2005)
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