Università Roma Tre

Techniques of composition and transmission of medieval Germanic texts.

The course will focus on the analysis of medieval English and German texts (with particular attention to passages devoted to literary dreams and visions) 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 intertextuality, diachronic linguistics and textual tradition.
Students will learn how to use the principle bibliographical instruments for carrying out individual
researches with an interdisciplinary approach.
Seminars, with students’ presentations of individual researches, will be held.

Students are advised to attend classes. Those who cannot attend them are requested to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course.

- Krapp, George Philip and Dobbie, Elliott Van Kirkhe, Anglo-Saxon poetic records: a collective edition, 6 voll., New York: Columbia University Press1931-1953.
- The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/)
- Treharne, Elaine, Old and Middle English c.890-c.1450: An Anthology, Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell 2009.
- The Canterbury Tales and Other Works of Chaucer (Middle English): https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/mect/index.htm
- M. Andrew and R. Waldron, edd., The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript. Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Exeter: Exeter University Press 2007 (passi scelti).
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=cme;idno=Gawain
- Wisniewski R., Bartsch K., de Boor H., edd., Das Nibelungenlied, Wiesbaden : Brockhaus, 1979.
- P. Scardigli e M. Meli, Il canzoniere eddico, Milano: Garzanti 1982.