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Ellis deftly covers the basics of the Norman toppling of the last Saxon king and its aftermath, and recommends that the traveler start with an English Heritage audio tour of the Battle of Hastings site in near present-day Battle, East Sussex. [...]the Staffordshire Hoard, now on permanent display at...

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Published in:Old English newsletter 2021-01, Vol.47 (1/2), p.7-11
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
8th century
Anon (600-1100) (Beowulf and Judith)
Art galleries & museums
Classroom communication
Digital technology
English literature
Historical text analysis
Hypertext
Medieval literature
Middle Ages
Old English
Poetry
Social networks
Students
Teaching
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Summary:Ellis deftly covers the basics of the Norman toppling of the last Saxon king and its aftermath, and recommends that the traveler start with an English Heritage audio tour of the Battle of Hastings site in near present-day Battle, East Sussex. [...]the Staffordshire Hoard, now on permanent display at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and The Potteries Museum ôc Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, shows that these so-called Dark Ages in fact razzle-dazzled. Hyers article addresses the use of WebQuest, which allows the teacher to imbed hyperlinks hat lead students through online course materials and form a document that encourages critical interaction with the material, in teaching medieval literature in both introductory classes and upper-division classes for majors. Lee looks retrospectively at digital technologies in Old English studies, and surmises that medievalists may be said to have been at the forefront of the now decades old move to incorporate technology into teaching and research, noting, for example, Peter Baker's Introduction to Old English which was accompanied by online material and Kevin Kiernan's groundbreaking digital edition of Beowulf He chooses Patrick Conner's The Beowulf Workstation, which presented a variety of resources in a hypertext environment, to illustrate two important tenets of how to study Old English: first, that one must incorporate multidisciplinary primary and secondary sources; and second, the text should nevertheless remain central.
ISSN:0030-1973