Università Roma Tre

Authors and scribes in medieval England and Germany

The course will focus on the analysis of medieval English and German texts which will be the starting point for outlining the main characteristics of the literary and cultural milieu in which they were produced and for widening the students’ knowledge in the field of diachronic linguistics and textual tradition. Students will learn how to use the principle bibliographical instruments for carrying out individual researches and to set a text within its literary genre.
Seminars, with students’ presentations of individual researches, will be held.

A selection of chapters from the following books:

- L. Avrin, Scribes, Script and Books. The Book Arts from Antiquity to Renaissance, American Library Association/The British Library: Chicago- London 1991.
- M. P.Brown, A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600, The British Library: London 1990.
- A. M. Luiselli Fadda, Tradizioni manoscritte e critica del testo nel medioevo germanico, Roma-Bari: Laterza 2004.
- A. M. Luiselli Fadda, “Lectio Magistralis. L’arte della filologia”, in: Percepta rependere dona. Studi di filologia per Anna Maria Luiselli Fadda, a cura di C. Bologna, M. Mocan e P. Vaciago, Olschki: Firenze 2010, pp. xiii- xxvii.
- D. Crystal, The Stories of English, Penguin Books: London 2005,
or:
- G. Wolff, Deutsche Sprachgeschichte von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart, UTB: Stuttgart 2009.

Further material will be given at the beginning of the course.
Students are advised to attend classes. Those who cannot attend them are requested to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course.