Università Roma Tre

Old English Poetry: Beowulf and other heroes
The course will focus on the analysis of some Old English poems with particular attention to the heoric poems, Beowulf e The Battle of Finnsburh.
The poems will be analyzed and critically discussed from a literary, linguistic and philological perspective, taking into account the peculiarities of Anglo-Saxon production and the influences derived from the Continent. Particular attention will be paid to stylistic and morphosyntactic features, vocabulary, as well as to the ways in which Anglo-Saxon poets.

History of Old English Literature. One of the following texts:
- M. Battaglia (ed.), Le civiltà letterarie del Medioevo germanico, Carocci, Roma 2017 (pp. 137-276).
- B. Murdoch - M. Read (edd.), Early Germanic Literature and Culture, Camden House, Rochester-New York 2004 (pp. 205-233).
- M. Amodio, The Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA 2014.

Textual criticism
A.M. Luiselli Fadda, Tradizioni manoscritte e critica del testo nel Medioevo germanico, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2010 (Parte I).

Old English Grammars, one of the following texts:
B. Mitchell - F. C. Robinson, A Guide to Old English, Blackwell, Oxford 2008.
R. Lass, Old English: a Historical Linguistic Companion, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1993. G. Mazzuoli Porru, Manuale di inglese antico, Giardini, Pisa 1992.
J. Wright, Old English Grammar. London: Oxford University Press, 1984 (3rd ed.)