Academic Calendar 2023/2024 - Here Be Dragons? Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Literature in Translation

ENGL 2717  Here Be Dragons? Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Literature in Translation

Prerequisites:

Three credits of 1000 level ENGL (excluding ENGL 1501, ENGL 1502) or any 18 credits completed (excluding ENGL 1501, ENGL 1502, ENGL 2001, ENGL 2011)

Antirequisites:

ENGL 2006 if taken before 2022

Hours:

3 hours of lecture and discussion per week

Credits:

3

Description:

Warriors! Knights! Monsters! Marvels! — and farting? Students examine the heroic heights and quotidian lows of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval literature (c. 700-1500) in modern translation. Despite its “Game of Thrones” reputation — which is partly true — the literature of this period is vast and varied. As Dryden said of this era’s literature, “here is God’s plenty.” Special attention is given to Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.