Pedagogy Apr 2013

Drinking Feasts and Insult Battles

Harold C. Zimmerman

Abstract

By incorporating the eleventh-century colloquies of Benedictine monk Ælfric Bata into first-semester British Literature survey courses, instructors can efficiently and entertainingly confront and complicate many of the preconceived and reductive views of the medieval period that students often possess (and that canonical texts can unwittingly reinforce).

Journal
Pedagogy
Published
2013-04-01
DOI
10.1215/15314200-1958431
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