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Course Catalog 2006-2007 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ENGL 310 - Early Medieval Literature: from Epic to Romance

4 HU, WR
Second Semester. This course traces the rise of European literatures in the post-Roman world.  Topics will include the Christian rejection of classical learning, the clash of monastic and heroic ideals in the age of epic, the twelfth-century renaissance, the new emphasis on love and the individual, and the birth of a flamboyant secular literary culture in French and Anglo-Norman courts.  Authors may include Virgil, Augustine, Boethius, the Beowulf poet, Abelard, Heloise, Marie de France, and Chretien de Troyes.  All texts in English translation. 
Pre-1700.




Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25.
Ms. Bryan

Credits: 4 hours


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