Università Roma Tre

The course comprises a preliminary language course (12 hours) and a series of lectures (30 hours).
**************************
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 2021-2022 the text that will be examined is:
Mitchell – Robinson, Guide to Old English, text no. 9 “Bede’s Account of the Poet Caedmon”

Notes:
- All the materials necessary to follow the course will be made available on the Teams group of the course;
- Students unable to attend/follow the course regularly 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.

- Bruce Mitchell – Fred C. Robinson, A guide to Old English, John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2012
(N.B.: This text is available as e-book via RomaTreDiscovery)
- Additional material provided by the lecturer.
All the materials necessary to follow the course will be made available on the Teams group of the course.