The course consists of two sections. The first part will be devoted to textual criticism; we will apply the teoretical notions introduced to some Old Germanic (but also Romance) texts, about which we will give a literary introduction as well as a linguistic and philological comment. In the second part we wil deal with the theme of biography and history in Medioeval Age, with particular attention paid to Old and Middle English literatures.
LUISELLI FADDA, Anna Maria. 1994. Tradizioni manoscritte e critica del testo nel Medioevo germanico. Roma: La Terza.
M. Amodio, The Anglo Saxon Literature Handbook. 2013. London: Wiley-Blackwell
Bennett, Jack Arthur Walter. 1986. Middle English literature /edited and completed by Douglas Gray. Oxford : Clarendon press.
Learning Objectives
Acquaintance of the student with the main themes of Germanic Philology and learning of one of the Old Germanic languages.
Teaching Methods
Lectures and written essays.
Type of Assessment
Either written or oral exam
Course program
During the first part of the course the student will face the problems connected with the edition of a Medieval text and at the same time theretically learn how to edit a text. The terminology introduced in the first part will be confronted with Old Germanic (but also Romance) texts, of which translation, literary introduction, and linguistic and philological comments will be provided. The second part focuses on Medieval biography and historiography, paying special attention to Old and Middle English literatures.
The students, who attend the course, will accompany the lectures with a bibliography of reference to which the student must add a grammar of Old and Middle English, to be used during the analysis of texts. During the course we will offer bibliography where students can find the Old Germanic texts analyzed during the lectures.