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ENGL209 Medieval English Literature

10 cp
Prerequisites 10 cp from 100-level units in Literature
Teaching Organisation A range of teaching procedures, including lectures, and tutorials will be used.

This course will explore, compare, and contrast representative medieval English texts from Beowulf to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and his contemporaries. Texts from the Anglo-Saxon era will be studied in modern English translations. Middle English texts in dialects other than Chaucer's will be studied in modernized editions, but the course will also include a brief introduction to the language of Chaucer and will present a selection of his texts in their original form. A selection of shorter Middle English lyrics will also be studied in heavily glossed original texts or bilingual presentations.

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