The bulk of our postmedieval reading, however, will come from the twentieth and twenty-first century, most likely including Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play, Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant, Paul Kingsnorth’s The Wake, poetry by Marie Howe and Seamus Heaney, Yiimimangaliso: The Mysteries, and The Seventh Seal. Furnivall and the rise of the Early English Text Society, and examine the neo-medieval aesthetics of Victorian visual artists and poets (and perhaps read Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court). Picking up postmedieval texts with the rise of 18th century antiquarian interest in the medieval past, we will read Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe and consider the anthologizing impulse of ballad collectors, look at the 19th century editorial efforts of F. Medieval works most likely will include Beowulf, medieval ballads, romances by Chrétien de Troyes and Malory, selected hagiography, the Chester Mystery plays, and either Everyman or Mankind. In general, medieval texts will be paired with postmedieval texts, sometimes within the same class period and sometimes across a two- or three-week period. The class is meant for both medievalists and non-medievalists, with the intention that we all gain greater fluency in talking about a more temporally extensive literary history, as well as the confidence to forge new connections among these far-flung centuries. We will read both medieval texts and postmedieval texts that reveal a continual fascination with those medieval centuries, examining how complementary – and at times oppositional– literary and critical strategies engage the distant past. This course surveys various literary (and occasionally cinematic) engagements with the medieval past to consider the ways in which the reinvention of those centuries served political ends, cultivated forms of nostalgia, influenced avowedly modern genres, and contributed to the rise of the discipline of English literary study. Spring 2017Įnglish: Texts and Critical Issues in Medieval Literature: Medievalisms (350:535) Please check with your advisor to be sure of current courses. Graduate course offerings vary widely from semester to semester. Introduction to the study of manuscripts, records, and the manuscript book.
Prerequisite: Two terms of classical Latin.Īn overview of Medieval Latin grammar and syntax followed by readings in major texts, including works in theology, philosophy, and literature. Graduate courses that originate in the Medieval Studies Program: The various courses in medieval studies are offered by the participating faculty and additional faculty through their departments.
Those who fulfill the requirements may be awarded the certificate in Medieval Studies upon completion of their degrees. Students with a special interest in medieval studies may pursue, in the course of their regular program of studies toward an advanced degree, a special concentration in medieval studies.
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