- Course Description
- Itinerary
- Readings
- Tours and Museums
- Mont St. Michel
Canterbury
This course explores the historical and cultural expression of medieval France and England by focusing on the Plantagenets, the most powerful noble house of 12th century France, and rulers of England from 1154 to 1399. As crusaders and statesmen, defenders and critics of the church, poets and patrons of the arts, the Plantagenets did much to shape the events of their age. Readings and lectures survey the political, religious and intellectual climate of the period, while on-site visits examine contemporary cultural artifacts, including architecture and sculpture, stained glass, tapestry, sacred and secular music, poetry and book production.
ITINERARY
DEPARTURE : May 9, 2000
American flt. 42
LV O'Hare 16:30
May 10, 2000
AR DeGaulle
RETURN :
June 3, 2000 American flt. 47
LV Heathrow 13:50
AR O'Hare 16:15
| Paris
May 9 - 14
Chartres May 15 - 16 Le Mans May 17 Angers May 17 - 21 Chinon May 19 Fontevraud May 19 Mont St-Michel May 22 |
Bayeux
May 23
Rouen May 23 - 25 Winchester May 26 Chepstow May 27 - 28 London May 29 - June 2 Canterbury June 1 Chicago June 3 |
HISTORY AND SOCIETY
*Medieval
France Maps Home Page
*Primary
Texts - Medieval French History
*Les
Capétiens - Les Croisades - copious
maps and medieval images
*Monarchs
and Monasteries in Medieval France
*English
Monarchs - Norman Line
*English
Monarchs - Angevin Line
*Battle
of Hastings
*Magna
Carta - background
*Magna
Carta - text
*Thomas
Becket
*The
Rule of St. Benedict
Histoire
de France et histoire dynastique
History
of Normandy
Normandy
map / Carte de Normandie
The Monarchs
of England
Medieval
Women Writers
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ART
*Bayeux
Tapestry
*Medieval
Manuscript Leaves
Tapestry
in Angers
Le roi Charles
V et son temps
*VitrailFrance-Stained
Glass Workshop in LeMans
ARCHITECTURE
*Romanesque
and Gothic France
*Medieval
Chartres
*Amiens
Cathedral Project
*Glossary
of Medieval Architectural Terms
Medieval Art and
Architecture
MUSIC
*Official
site of the Abbey of Solesmes - Gregorian Chant
*Music
of the Troubadours and Trouvères - explores
connections between Eleanor and the Troubadours
*Medieval
Love Songs
Troubadours
& Instruments - an article by Joel Cohen
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SITES
Paris
at the time of Philippe-Auguste
Paris
à l'époque de Philippe-Auguste -
More complete than English version
Paris
Metro Navigator
Loire
Valley Links
Angers
L'abbaye
Saint-Pierres de Solesmes
The
Royal Abbey of Fontevraud
Mont-Saint-Michel
Winchester
Cathedral and City
Stonehenge
Chepstow
Milliennium Web Site - Chepstow Castle
London
Underground Navigator
Westminster Abbey
Shakespeare's Globe
Canterbury Tour
Salisbury Cathedral
MUSEUMS
The Louvre
Musée
National du Moyen Age - Thermes de Cluny
Orsay Museum
Musée
Jeanne d'Arc, Rouen
The British Library
TOP
- Bonne route!
Happy Trails!