University of St Andrews

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 40

ECTS credits : 20

Level : SCQF level 11

Semester: Full Year

Availability restrictions: Availability to be confirmed over the summer

Planned timetable: To be arranged

This module teaches culturally central Middle English and Scottish texts from the later Middle Ages within their wider cultural context. Fortnightly seminars examine a historical and generic variety of major literary texts produced from 1200 to 1500. Syllabus texts may range from the early Worcester Fragments, studied in their manuscript context, to Scots writers (and St Andrews graduates!) such as Gavin Douglas, whose work stretches into the early sixteenth century. Examples of key medieval genres such as saints' lives and romance are compared to their sources, counterparts or influences in other languages or earlier forms of English.

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact: 11 x 2 hr seminars (normally fortnightly)

Assessment pattern

As used by St Andrews: Coursework = 100%


Re-assessment: One new submission equivalent in length and nature to the failed piece of coursework. The piece submitted for reassessment must be entirely new work.

Personnel

Module coordinator: Dr M C Baldon
Module teaching staff: Team taught
Module coordinator email mcb9@st-andrews.ac.uk