Study Group Details
672: Anglo-Saxon England: Literature and Manuscripts
Tuesday11:45 - 1:15
Starting September 26
In-Person
This course will explore the literature of early medieval England, ca. 700-1100, and the manuscripts in which it survives. We will read in translation selections from Latin and Old English literature, including histories, biographies, elegies, riddles, heroic poems, biblical poetry, and more. We will end by considering what happened to Old English after the Norman Conquest. Participants will get an introduction to features of Old English, but this will not be a language course. Readings will be in modern English translation. This course will contain much to interest those who have already taken my Medieval Manuscripts and Beowulf courses, but there are no prerequisites for this course.
Recorded: NO
This study group is new
Class Type: Lecture and Discussion
Class Format: In-Person
Hours of Reading: 1 hr/week
Study Group Leader(s):
Carin Ruff
Carin Ruff has a PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto and has taught Medieval Latin, Old English, and manuscript studies at Toronto, John Carroll University, University of California Berkeley, and Cornell University. She teaches occasional graduate Medieval Latin courses at the University of Maryland and is working on a novel about an Anglo-Saxon archaeological site.
Reading List
The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (Greg Delanty and Michael Matto (Editors)) | 2012: W. W. Norton & Company | ISBN: 978-0393342413 | Required
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People; The Greater Chronicle; Bede's Letter to Egbert (Bede, Judith McLure and Roger Collins (Editors)) | 2009: Penguin Classics | ISBN: 978-0140445657 | Required
Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources (Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge (Translators)) | 1984: Penguin Classics | ISBN: 978-0140444094 | Required