| Time | Days | Location | Instructor | GER | Credit | OPUS Class Number | Syllabus (Tentative) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2:30pm-3:45pm | TuTh | Candler Library 120 | Judith Evans-Grubbs. | HAL. | 4 | 2456 | TBA. |
This class is a survey of Latin literature from late antiquity (4th-6th centuries) to the later Middle Ages (13th century). We’ll selections from Latin prose (historiography, biography, hagiography) and poetry (epic, lyric, hymns and drinking songs) by both male and female authors of this period. The main text used is the second edition of Keith Sidwell’s Reading Medieval Latin (Cambridge U. Press, 1995). In addition, we will be reading selections from the Ecclesiastical History of the English People of the Anglo-Saxon scholar Bede (the Venerable), taken from F.W. Garforth's Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica (Bolchazy-Carducci, reprinted 1988). In the third part of the semester, the students themselves will be deciding what we shall read and selecting readings from either Sidwell or other texts to present to the class.
Grading
| Assignment/Exam | Details | % of Total Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Class-time will center on translation of the assigned readings and discussion of the literary and historical background of the texts. There will be two tests during the semester but no final exam. Instead, students will do a final research paper. (includes translation, discussion, and presentation of the reading you choose) | Tests: 50 Paper(s) 25 Class performance 25 % |
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