Università Roma Tre

The course comprises a preliminary language course (12 hours) and a series of lectures (30 hours).
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The preliminary course provides a grounding in the Old English Language;

The lectures will:
a) illustrate some of the main phonological and morphological characteristics distinguishing Old English from the other Germanic languages and these in turn from Indi-European;
b) focus on a prose text drawn from those available in 'A Guide to Old English': the text will be translated and analyzed from a linguistic as well as a cultural and literary perspective. Issues relating to its transmission will furthermore be considered.

In the course for the academic year 2019-2020 the text that will be examined is:
Mitchell – Robinson, Guide to Old English, text no. 9 “Bede’s Account of the Poet Caedmon”

Notes:
- Students are requested to register for the course by sending an e-mail to the lecturer (paolo.vaciago@uniroma3.it) indicating their name and matriculation number. They should do so using their institutional address (i.e. ending @stud.uniroma3.it) as all other senders will be disregarded automatically;

- Students unable to attend the course in person are requested to contact the lecturer well in advance of the session in which they intend to take the exam, realistically at least six months in advance.

- B. Mitchell – F. C. Robinson, A guide to Old English, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2008, 7th ed. (or any later edition);
Additional material provided by the lecturer: in order to receive by email the additional material, as well as any other urgent communication during the course, students are requested to register for the course by sending an e-mail to the lecturer (paolo.vaciago@uniroma3.it) indicating their name and matriculation number. They should do so using their institutional address (i.e. ending @stud.uniroma3.it) as all other senders will be disregarded automatically.