ENGL 24019 - Medieval Literature: the Place of the Premodern

Course Credit: 1
(CMLT)
This course reads the imaginative literature of the later Middle Ages. In addition to experiencing the pleasures of such genres as romance, dream vision, and drama, students explore how these genres shaped medieval ideas of time and place. The course considers how the “middle age” came to be, what it was, and how it relates to modernity. Texts and films to be studied may include Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, William Langland’s Piers Plowman, Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose (film and novel), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Lais of Marie de France, The Second Shepherd’s Play, A Knight’s Tale, and Braveheart. [Before 1800] [AH]