EN5018
Middle English Literature in Context
2018-2019
40
20
SCQF level 11
Full Year
Academic year(s): 2018-2019
SCOTCAT credits : 40
ECTS credits : 20
Level : SCQF level 11
Semester: Full Year
Availability restrictions: Availability to be confirmed over the summer
Planned timetable:
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.
Weekly contact: 11 x 2 hr seminars (normally fortnightly)
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.