Medieval Spanish Lit

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

An introduction to the principal genres of the Spanish Middle Ages and early Renaissance: lyric poetry, epic, hagiography, romance, exempla, and chronicle. Emphasis is placed on historical and cultural contexts, as well as relationships to other medieval Romance literatures. Issues of medieval poetics, reading and interpretative strategies, and literary ideals concerning historical didactic, sacred, and imaginative literature in poetry and prose are explored through representative works.