This course introduces students to the literature of the English Middle Ages. Students will read both Old English texts (such as Beowulf and The Wanderer) and Middle English texts (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and selections from The Canterbury Tales) alongside non-literary medieval texts-histories, guides to religious living, and philosophical tracts-that together work to reveal the cultural context in which medieval writers worked. The class will also include representative medieval drama (mystery plays and/or morality plays) and works by and about women (such as the works of Marie de France and Margery Kempe).
This course introduces students to the literature of the English Middle Ages. Students will read both Old English texts (such as Beowulf and The Wanderer) and Middle English texts (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and selections from The Canterbury Tales) alongside non-literary medieval texts-histories, guides to religious living, and philosophical tracts-that together work to reveal the cultural context in which medieval writers worked. The class will also include representative medieval drama (mystery plays and/or morality plays) and works by and about women (such as the works of Marie de France and Margery Kempe).
