also know the love (the bitter, Gaston, and sweet, with Leon) will travel through France, make friends (Guy, Mrs. Lumière, Violante and other ladies Cathar) and terrible enemies (Dhuoda, friend like White Lady, cruel enemy as Black Lady, Fray Angelico.) Background, the Crusades and the bitter struggle against the Cathars, whom Leola sympathetic and whose cities are refugees because they are the only ones that can live thanks to the tolerance of its inhabitants, the discovery of books, the fascination libraries and, of course, History of King transparent, highlights the magical element of the novel, the story impossible to know because that has struck down by an accident and that, when we are about to meet ...
Another novella, very light and suitable for 1 º ESO (and the 3 rd year of primary school, even), is Fernando the Fearless , of, José Luis Velasco (Bamboo), which has a start like: Fernando, an 8 year old boy, decides to trace her father, taken by force to fight the Muslims in Castilla del s. XII. As in Rosa Montero's novel, the real characters mingle with the imaginary. In this case, the battle in the middle of which is poor is Alarcos Fernando. His father dies between him and an arrow and, in turn, Fernando star in an action that saves the king's life. As a reward, a gentleman will make your server and take you to court. The plot revolves around a conspiracy against King Alfonso VIII (Plantagener married Eleanor, daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine precisely, the queen of the troubadours) who happened to find Fernando. It is very entertaining and serves to whet your appetite to the smaller of medieval literature will be found later. Looking
looking at my neighborhood library found a gem that I recommended my colleague at the institute neighbor, Sea, to read in literature class universal (4 º, 2 º Bachillerato and even, I could read in 2 º and 3 º ESO): The knight of the cart , or Lancelot of Chretien de Troyes , considered a pioneer of the modern novel. All the stories about the figure of King Arthur are, for me, a fascinating element difficult to explain. In this case, and the style of courtly love, a gentleman, none other than Lancelot, and Lancelot, but we will not know his name until later-faces every obstacle imaginable even yield to the humiliation of being paraded on a cart, as was done with the villains and murderers, so to reach his lady (the very wife of King Arthur, Queen Guinevere!) who is imprisoned in the realm of evil Meleagant. The whole essence of the chivalric romances that take root in the fertile imagination of Don Quixote are here: adventure, love, the chivalric code, sensuality, sense of honor and justice y. .. treason. I l to have read in an edition of Luis Carandell for editorial Lumen, but there is another highly recommended in Alliance by Luis Alberto de Cuenca, and Carlos García Gual.
Ivanhoe , the classic Walter Scott, does not disappoint those hoping to dive into the essence of medieval castles, dungeons, witches, clowns, tournaments, crusaders, druids, beautiful women, men, bold, selfish, pilgrims, intrigue, betrayal ... And characters who are part of our childhood memories and adventurous as John Lackland, Richard Coeur de Lion (the children of this fascinating queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, already quoted above) Lady Rowena, the Jewish Rebecca or Robin Hood himself. ( Youth Anaya offers a version fitted with a comprehensive guide of activities for secondary students).
Finally, a good suggestion for those "reading night" to encourage our students outside of scheduled: the well-known The Pillars of the Earth of Ken Follet . I read it one summer many years ago and I remember that I found very entertaining (although the plot is a bit convoluted, the number of relationships established between past and present, and the infinity of characters that populate its thousand-odd pages). The argument I remember some things (many more than you tend to remember when faced with one of these novels called "best-sellers", which are read and forget as quickly), the love of Tom, the mason, for their work, the outrage produced by the actions of the powerful as William or the bishop, the struggles for power (which the ancient modern), the joy produced by the triumph of love (poetic justice, above all) and the fascination exercise - about me, much-construction medieval.
Pending I have, the great American novelist and Nobel laureate John Steinbeck Literature, The Acts of King Arthur and his noble knights , so to another trip, walkers ...
may also interest you
Travel to the Middle Ages
tremor, Rosa Montero
0 comments:
Post a Comment