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 106-075 Medieval Representations

Note

Formerly available as 106-414. Students who have completed 106-414 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Stephanie Trigg

Prerequisites

Usually admission to Fourth Year Honours, see Honours entry.

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

A 2-hour seminar per week

Subject Description

This subject examines various forms of textuality and representation in medieval English writing, focussing on questions of knowledge, heresy and orthodoxy, cultural and literary authority, literacy, performance and subjectivity. A range of medieval prose and poetry (some in the original Middle English, some in modern translation) will be read through contemporary critical and methodological debates in medieval studies, with particular attention to the possibility of a postmodern medievalism. No prior knowledge of Middle English is assumed for this subject.

Assessment

Written work totalling 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts

A subject reader will be available.

  • B Windeatt (trans), The Book of Margery Kempe. Penguin.
  • G Chaucer, P G Beidler (ed) Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism, The Wife of Bath. Bedford.
  • J A Burrow & T Turville-Petre (ed), A Book of Middle English. Blackwell.
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