Question Description
Organize your answers carefully. Provide Examples and chronological references. Do not be reluctant to voice your own opinion. Your answers have to be more than a memorization of your text book or class notes.
STRUCTURE EACH PART AS ESSAY WITH INTRO/THESIS AND CONCLUSION
USE QUOTES FROM ATTACHED FILES PLEASE
YOUR ANSWERS MAY NOT EXCEED 2,000 WORDS. THAT IS 8 PAGES FOR THE ENTIRE EXAM
Part 1: Short essay 3-4 pages (50 points)
Part 2: Short essay 3-4 pages (50 points)
PART 1. Discuss Dantes Inferno. What are the most salient political, cultural, and theological elements of the book? What does it tell you about western European culture around 1300? What was important to Dante and how he articulates his values in this book? YOU COULD FOCUS ON SOME OF THE CANTOS; RATHER THAN THE ENTIRE INFERNO
Part 2. Discussing the Hundred Years War (while providing a short summary of the events) emphasize the social and cultural consequences of the war? How does Froissart (ATTACHED DOC ) represent the conflict? How does he depict the different social classes? (Descriptions of the battle of Crecy and the Jacquerie) (ATTACHED DOC)