1. Discuss Geoffrey & Intro to Anglo-Saxons

2. What made Arthur a legitimate king rather than a usurper?
In what sense does the work resemble a tragedy?
How do we give this book a sympathetic reading?

3. What’s sorts of symbols are important in Geoffrey’s work?
What forms did Geoffrey use to portray supernatural influences?
How does Geoffrey portray women?

4. What did you think of the reading by Gildas the wise?
What topic(s) did he cover?
How substantial was his influence on Geoffrey?

5. How does Geoffrey’s book end?
With the death of Arthur
With Saxon domination
With the arrival of Christian missionaries
With the reign of the antichrist in the guise of Mordred?
Let me get back to you on that

6. Overall I would rate Geoffrey book
A bust – don’t subject students to this rubbish
It’s OK, but I would have preferred to read a book more like Campbell
Nice. It was entertaining and I think I might have learned something
Exquisite. I can’t get enough stuff about Arthur and Celts

7. The Anglo-Saxons What was the culture like?
How did they differ from the Celts?
How did they gain control of the island?
How did they become Christian?
How did they build a unified state?
What sources can we use to understand them before they became Christian?

8. Where have you seen this picture?

9. Ordeal by Fire from prehistory to the early 1200s

10. Sutton Hoo Burial Mounds

11. Burial Mounds in Sweden

12. Sutton Hoo Burial Mask

13. Raedwald East Anglian King Baptized 605 Died 625
Induced to adopt Christianity by Ethelbert of Kent
Bretwalda
Both pagan and Christian
Buried at Sutton Hoo?

14. Ethelbert of Kent Married Christian Bertha of the Franks
Converted to Christianity after arrival of Augustine in 597
Bretwalda
Produced first vernacular legal code in England

15. Laws of Aethelberht of Kent c. 600

16. Bede

17. Jarrow Monastery

18. The Heptarchy c. 700