Survey of Medieval Literature

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

Prereq: ENGL 2201; 3 credits from ENGL at the 2000 level; or permission of the Department A study of selected literary texts produced in England from the fifth century to the fifteenth century. Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Celtic texts will be read in modern translations, Middle-English texts will be read in the original. Major texts and authors such as Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon elegies, Chaucer, Lydgate and Malory will be included along with anonymous texts. (Format: Lecture 3 Hours) (Exclusion: ENGL 3011 Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Literature)