Course Details in 2023/24 Session

Module Title	LC Discovering Medieval Literature B
School	Eng, Drama, & Creative Studies
Department	English Literature
Module Code	09 33549
Module Lead	Phillippa Semper
Level	Certificate Level
Credits	10
Semester	Semester 2
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites	LC Discovering Medieval Literature A - (09 33548)
Restrictions	None
Contact Hours	Seminar-20 hours Guided independent study-80 hours Total: 100 hours
Exclusions
Description	Students will be introduced to some of the earliest writings in English, get hands-on experience of medieval manuscripts, art, and buildings, and discover alternative views and interpretations of the self. Students investigate how medieval writers and artists respond to, represent, and interpret the self. Our starting-point is an on-campus visit to engage with a cultural collection, e.g. the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, the University’s world-renowned art gallery and museum. Here, we will examine a range of books and objects that were the prized personal possessions of medieval people, for example a jewellery box, a mirror, and beautiful books of hours. These objects will introduce us to the themes of this semester: the inner lives of medieval people, how they constructed their identities and saw the stories of their lives from birth, through love and sex, to death. We will follow up these themes through a wide variety of literary texts, including dreams and visions, love poems, romances of love lost and found, and stories of heroes and heroines. Later in the semester students will be divided into groups for student-led visits to medieval buildings to see how buildings and their artistic and literary collections also tell us about the medieval self (for example, the Guildhall, Coventry; Lichfield Cathedral; Great Malvern Priory).
Learning Outcomes	By the end of the module students should be able to: Demonstrate an understanding of how medieval writers and artists respond to, represent, and interpret the self; Demonstrate basic skills in reading texts in the original language supported by glosses and parallel translations; Analyse selected literary texts in Old and Middle English and of selected medieval material artefacts.
Assessment	33549-01 : DMLA 1000 Word Essay : Coursework (30%) 33549-03 : DMLB 2000 Word Essay : Coursework (70%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions	The assessment for modules 33548 and 33549 is linked. Essay 1,000 words (30%) [normally in Semester 1] Essay 2,000 words (70%) [normally in Semester 2] Reassessment: Re-submission of failed component
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