OSOBA	PYTANIE
Marcin Balejko	What might be the common cultural features shared by medieval representations of femininity, monstrosity and the supernatural?
Jasiek Bartnik	Present and discuss briefly varied contexts of medieval femininity.
Patryk Damec	What is meant by the “palimpsestic” nature of medieval texts and cultural narratives? Examples?
Mateusz Dąbrowski	Who was a scop and what were his cultural roles? An example?
Ewelina Grzegorzek	What are the three stylistic features of Old English poetry?
Ania Gucwa	In what way is monstrosity manifested in Beowulf and in its manuscript?
Natalia Guja	What is “liminality” in culture and what are its manifestations in Beowulfian monsters?
Ola Mazur	Who was Tacitus and what were his observations on the roles of women in Germanic societies?
Klaudia Mazurkiewicz	What were the chief roles of women in early Scandinavian societies?
Marysia Mietła	Discuss perspectives on fate in early Scandinavian societies and their correlations with femininity. Consider examples from the Poetic Edda.
Konrad Rumiński	Discuss several examples of the way in which medieval femininity was explored/imagined by 20th and 21st c. filmmakers. (refer to at least 2 films)
Kasia Sandomierska	Discuss several examples of the way in which medieval monstrosity was explored/imagined by 20th and 21st c. filmmakers. (refer to at least 2 films)
Monika Salamucha	What is cultural teratology? Present the ways in which it may find its uses in cultural theory and cultural psychology.
Hania Sitter	What was monstrous to medieval thinkers? Refer to the ideas of particular authors.
Asia Stefańska	Discuss the idea of a monster as an effective sign in medieval culture (use examples of 2-3 books known in the early Middle Ages). How was that sign akin to an enigma?
Kasia Strogulska	What was the social status of Anglo-Saxon women (from the class of freemen and the noble class)?
Andrzej Sysło	Discuss some examples of the roles of women in Anglo-Saxon poetry. Refer to 2-3 texts familiar to you from the reading list.
Ania Świetlik	Who was Abbess Hild of Whitby and what was her role in the symbolic birth of (Old) English literature? Where and by whom was it related?
Wojciech Wiśniewski	Discuss the idea of a monster as a riddle (and vice versa). In what way do riddles in culture combine the seemingly opposing roles of play, wisdom and magic?
Olek Wojtal	What are the etymological proofs of the multiplicity of roles performed by riddles in early European societies. What is the Old English giedd?
Hania Zwolińska	What were the charms and their roles in early societies. Examples of Old English charms?
Ala Czaja	What was fin amor, when and where did it originate?
	In what way was fin amor focused on moral and social improvement of (mostly) men?
	Discuss what we know of Marie de France and her cultural environment. What are her heroines like?
	Who was Andreas Capellanus? Discuss briefly the role of his text in the cultural construct of medieval idealised love.
	What were chivalric romances and how were (and are) they traditionally divided?
	Discuss briefly the rise of Arthurian myth in medieval Europe (referring to most notable medieval authors). What was its connection to the so-called matter of Rome?
	Who was the Pearl-Poet and what were his chief literary achievements?
	Discuss some instances of medieval misogyny – what aspects of femininity were considered as (potentially) dangerous by some medieval authors?
	Discuss medieval misogynistic perspective on the apparent sinfulness of women (medievally understood “sins of women”).
	Discuss the motif of the dread of the feminine power over men. Refer also to examples from the class reading list.
	What are fabliaux and in what way can they be referred to medieval misogynistic perspectives?
	What are sheela-na-gigs and what are their spatial and cultural contexts?
	Discuss the idea of cultural subversion in fabliaux. In what way the sheela-na-gig figures can be representative of such subversiveness