Your final project (cumulatively, 30% of your course grade) consists of the following elements:

annotated bibliography (20% of project grade) due Sunday, April 7 at 5am

proposal (5% of project grade) due Thursday, April 11 at 5am

extended researched analysis DRAFT of at least 6 pages (1800 words) (5% of project grade) due Tuesday, April 16 at 10am

extended researched analysis FINAL version (70% of project grade) due Monday, April 22 at 5am

[Click on the links above for detailed descriptions of each element.]

Your paper should follow one of the following three models. In any case, your project topic should clearly engage with the course’s theme (you remember: King Arthur and His World). Your essay must:

• Perform a literary analysis of one or more medieval texts on our syllabus–using this opportunity to read extended scholarly analyses of one or more medieval texts
  OR
• Analyze a feature of medieval culture that has arisen in medieval text(s) we’ve discussed (kingship, for instance, or courtly love, or medieval chivalry, or the Wars of the Roses), and apply that to a reading of one or more texts
  OR
• Analyze a feature of contemporary culture in relation to a feature of medieval culture that we have encountered in medieval text(s) we’ve discussed. The online article “Chivalry isn’t dead. But it should be” on the blog Made by History could serve as an example
  OR
• Analyze a text we have read this semester alongside a different version of the same material (Geoffrey of Monmouth’s presentation of Arthur’s origins compared to Malory’s, for instance)
  OR
• Analyze a 20th- or  21st-century Arthurian text (from 1975 or later) in terms of what you have learned about medieval Arthurian culture.

NOTE: If you would like to work on a project that you’re not sure will meet one of these expectations, see me before the end of Wednesday, April 3 to get your idea approved.