History paper 6-8 Pages
HISTORY PAPER
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 textbook or class notes.
YOUR ANSWERS MAY NOT EXCEED 2,000 WORDS.
Part 1: Short essay 3-4 pages
Part 2: Short essay 3-4 pages
Remember you are making an argument. You are not narrating or describing the authors’ works. You are expressing your ideas which you support with references to the authors.
PART 1 Question:
Discuss Dante’s 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
DO NOT USE OUTSIDE SOURCES AT ALL FOR THIS QUESTION
Here is the link to the book Dante Inferno: http://library.lol/main/
PART 2 Question:
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 (PDF pages 91-94) represent the conflict? How does he depict the different social classes in the descriptions of the battle of Crecy and the Jacquerie?
DO NOT USE OUTSIDE SOURCES AT ALL FOR THIS QUESTION AS WELL, ONLY THE PDF I AM ATTACHING
For Part 2 I posted the pdf below
Answer preview
Dante Inferno is a narrative that describes Dante’s journey from the consequences of sin to seeking redemption and repentance. He finds himself lost in dark wood and starts to find his way back to a hill bathed in sunlight. However, he is confronted by three fierce beasts known as a leopard, lion, and a She-wolf. He is dreaded with fear and runs back to the sunless wood where he meets Virgil, who comes to his rescue. The main reason why Dante finds himself in the forest is as a result of sin. Every ordeal that Dante experiences through hell illustrates the consequences of sin.
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