Course Requirements
Students enrolled in the class are required to do all the readings listed below according to the schedule given. The readings will serve as the basis for class discussions. Regular attendance in class is expected and students are responsible for all material covered and assignments made in class. Additional requirements:
--Two hour exams, September 21 and October 28 (15% each). You may be excused from these exams by only your college dean or the student health center.
--Final exam (20%) Your absence from this exam, unless you've been excused by your college dean, means automatic failure for the course.
--A short essay, due on September 30. (15%)
--A major essay, due on December 4. (20% of grade)
--Class discussion list and WWW site. I have set up for this class an e-mail discussion list and a World Wide Web site. At the Web site you will find information pertaining to this pragmatics of this class, including syllabus, paper assignments, out-of-class journal assignments and other announcements, in addition to materials to supplement the readings. It will be your responsibility to visit this site regularly to make sure you are current with class happenings. Each student will also subscribe to the class discussion list and will post responses to both in-class and out-of-class questions to this list. At the end of the semester, you will turn in hard copy of your weekly list submissions to be graded. (15%) To subscribe to the class discussion list, send a message to listproc@list.uvm.edu. Leave the subject line blank. In the message area, type: Subscribe eng195 Your name. To access the WWW site, open Netscape. Pull down the file menu to Open Location and type: http://www.uvm.edu/~lbrought
All written work must be typewritten or word-processed and double-spaced. Students must complete all assignments as required in order to pass this course.

Texts
The following books are available at the University Store:
Julian of Norwich, Showings. Trans. Colledge and Walsh. New York: Paulist Press, 1978.
Bernard of Clairvaux. Homilies in Praise of the Virgin Mary. Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1993.
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Wife of Bath. Ed. Peter Beidler. New York: Bedford, St. Martins, 1996.
The Book of Margery Kempe. Translated by B.A. Windeatt. Harmnonsworth: Penguin Books, 1985.
Gail McMurray Gibson, The Theatre of Devotion. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1989.
Jaroslav Pelikan, Mary Through the Centuries. New Haven: Yale, 1996.
A photocopied collection of readings.

Course Schedule

Introduction: September 2

Eve and the Fall in Scripture
September 4: Genesis 1-3, 1 Corinthians 7, 11; Galatians 3; Ephesians 5; 1 Timothy 2

Eve and "Woman" in the Church "Fathers"
September 7: No class, Labor day.

September 9: Tertullian, "On the Apparel of Women," in The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, pp. 14-25.
Jerome, "Against Jovinian," Book 1, in A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second series, Volume 6, pp. 346-86

September 11: Ambrose, "Paradise," in Hexameron, Paradise, and Cain and Abel. Translated by John J. Savage. Fathers of the Church, Volume 42. New York, 1961.
Augustine, Two Books on Genesis Against the Manichees. Book 2, ch. 11-25. Translated by Roland J. Teske. Fathers of the Church, Volume 84. Washington, DC: Catholic University Press, 1991, pp. 111-35.
Gibson, Ch., 1

Eve in Medieval Dramatic Traditions
September 14: "The Fall of the Angels" and "The Fall of Man" in York Mystery Plays. Edited by Richard Beadle and Pamela King. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984, pp. 1-14.
"The Creation," in The Wakefield Mystery Plays. Edited by Martial Rose. New York: W.W. Norton, 1961. pp. 60-72.

September 16: "The Fall of Lucifer" and "Adam and Eve," in The Chester Mystery Cycle. Edited by R. M. Lumiansky and David Mills. EETS S.S. 3, Volume 1, pp. 1-31. London: Oxford University Press, 1974.

September 18: "The Creation of Heaven and the Fall of Lucifer," "The Creation of the World and Man and the Fall of Man," Edited by Stephen Spector. EETS S.S. 11. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Gibson, Ch. 2

Hour Exam: September 21

Mary in Scripture
September 23: Matthew 1-2; Luke 1-2; John 1:1-18
"The Protevangelium of James," in New Testament Apocrypha. Edited Edgar Hennecke. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1959, Volume 1, pp. 370-88.
Pelikan, Chs. 1 and 2

Mary in Ecclesiastical Traditions
September 25: Jerome, "The Perpetual Virginity of Mary" in A Select Library of Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume 6, pp. 334-46.
Pelikan, Ch. 3

September 28: Ambrose, "Three Books Concerning Virgins," Books 2-3, in A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume 10, pp. 374-87.
Gibson, Ch. 3

September 30: Homilies 1 and 2. Bernard of Clairvaux, Four Homilies upon the Incarnation of Our Lord Jesus Christ, commonly called "Super missus est." ESSAY 1
Pelikan, Ch. 4

October 2: Homilies 3 and 4. Bernard of Clairvaux, Four Homilies upon the Incarnation of Our Lord Jesus Christ, commonly called "Super missus est."
Gibson, Ch. 4

Mary in Medieval Dramatic Traditions
October 5: Plays 8-10, in The N-Town Play. Edited by Stephen Spector. EETS S.S. 11. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 70-111.
Pelikan, Ch. 6

October 7: Plays 11-13, in The N-Town Play. Edited by Stephen Spector. EETS S.S. 11. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 111-163.
Pelikan, Ch. 7

October 9: No class, fall recess.

October 12: Plays 14 & 15, in The N-Town Play. Edited by Stephen Spector. EETS S.S. 11. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 111-163.
Pelikan, Ch. 8

October 14: Play 41, in The N-Town Play. Edited by Stephen Spector. EETS S.S. 11. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 387-408.
Gibson, Ch. 5
Pelikan, Ch. 15

Devotion to the Virgin: Lyrics and Liturgy
October 16: "Adam lay ibounden," "I sing of a maiden," "Salve Regina," "Levedye, ic thonke thee," "Thou wommon boute fere," "Heyl, Levedy, see-sterre bright," "Holy moder, that bere Crist," in Middle English Lyrics. Edited by Maxwell Luria and Richard Hoffman. New York: Norton, 1974, pp. 147, 170-75.
"Stonde well, moder, under roode", in Medieval English Lyrics. R.T. Davies, ed. Chicago: Northwestern UP, 1964, pp. 86-89.
Pelikan, Ch. 9

October 19: "Ave maris stella"
"Salve Regina"
"Alma redemptoris mater"
"Angelus ad virginem," ed. F. Furnivall. Chaucer Society rpt. London: Trubner, 1885, pp. 695-96.
"Edi beo thu" in Old English Homilies of the Twelfth Century. Edited by R. Morris. EETS O.S. 53. London: Trubner and Co., 1873. Be familiar with the recording, An English Ladymass by this class.
Gibson, Ch. 6

Mary Miracles
October 21: "Theophilus," in The Middle English Miracles of the Virgin. Edited by Beverly Boyd. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1964, pp. 68-87.
Jacobus de Voragine, "The Assumption of the Virgin," in The Golden Legend. Translated by Granger Ryan and Helmut Ripperger. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1941. Volume 1, pp. 449-65.
Gautier de Coinci, "The Tumbler of Our Lady," in The Tumbler of Our Lady and Other Miracles. Edited by Alice Kemp Welch. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1966.

October 23: "A Lily Grows . . .," "Saved by the Learning of Two Words," and "The Devil in Service,",. in Ruth Wilson Tryon, "Miracles of Our Lady in Middle English Verse," PMLA 38 (1923), pp. 365-67, 374-78.
The Vernon MS "Boy Slain by Jews" in The Middle English Miracles of the Virgin. Edited by Beverly Boyd. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1964, pp. 32-36.

October 26: Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Prioress's Prologue and Tale," in The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd ed. Edited by Larry Benson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987, pp. 209-212.

Hour Exam: October 28

Representing women: Chaucer's Wife of Bath
October 30: Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Wife of Bath's Prologue," ed. Peter Beidler. St. Martins Press.
November 2: "The Wife of Bath's Tale," ed. Peter Beidler. St. Martins Press.

Women's Visionary Piety and Traditions of Femaleness
November 4: Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias. Translated by Mother Columba Hart and Jane Bishop. New York: Paulist Press, 1990, Book One, Visions 1-2, pp. 58-90.

November 6: The Greenest Branch: A Conference on the 900th Anniversary of the Birth of Hildegard of Bingen

November 9: Hildegard of Bingen, Symphonia, 9, 10, 19, 20, 22, in Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the "Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum". Edited and translated by Barbara Newman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
De Sancta Maria (Virgo ac diadema), De Sancta Maria (O clarissima mater). Trans. Peter Dronke. Liner notes, Hildegard von Bingen, Symphoniae. Seqentia, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
O vis aeternitatis, Nunc operuit nobis clausa porta, Quia ergo femina, Cum processit factura, Alma Redemptoris Mater, Ave Maria, Sprititus sanctus vivficans vita, O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti, Caritas habundat in omnia, Alleluia! O virga mediatrix, O viridissima virga, Ave, O pastor animarum, O tu suavissima virga, O choruscans lux stellarum, O mobilissima viriditas. Trans. Laurence Rosenwald. Liner notes, Hildegard von Bingen, Canticles of Ecstacy. Sequentia, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.

November 11: Elisabeth of Schönau, The First Visionary Diary, ch. 1-24, 57-79; The Resurrection of Mary; The Third Visionary Diary, ch. 4. Translated by Anne Clark.

November 13: Bridget of Sweden, The Liber Celestis, Book 7. Edited Roger Ellis. EETS O.S. 291. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987, pp. 468-91. Birgitta of Sweden, Life and Selected Revelations. Translated by Albert Ryle. New York: Paulist Press, 1990, pp. 159-218.

Novermber 16: Catherine of Siena, "Tears," in The Dialogue. Translated Susan Noffke. New York: Paulist Press, 1980, pp. 161-83.

Neither Eve nor Mary: Creating a lay woman's identity
November 18: The Book of Margery Kempe. Book 1,Chapters 1-28. Translated by B.A. Windeatt. Harmnonsworth: Penguin Books, 1985.

November 20: The Book of Margery Kempe. Chapters 29-60.

November 23: The Book of Margery Kempe. Chapters 61-89.

November 30: The Book of Margery Kempe. Book 2

Creating a theology: The work of Julian of Norwich
December 2: Julian of Norwich, Showings, Long text, chapters 1-20, pp. 175-214

December 4: Julian of Norwich, Showings, chapters 21-44, pp. 214-56 ESSAY 2

December 7: Julian of Norwich, Showings, chapters 45-59, pp. 256-97

December 9: Julian of Norwich, Showings, chapters 60-86, pp. 297-343