HISTORY PAPER
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/33CD58DC10277C403DC0AD2CB2… … press GET at the top to download the free PDF of the book.
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?
