ID:
24313
Dettaglio:
SSD: Romance Philology and Linguistics
Duration: 48
CFU: 8
Located in:
BERGAMO
Url:
HUMANITIES - 24-R/Letterario Year: 1
HUMANITIES - 24-270/LETTERARIO Year: 2
Year:
2025
Introduction to philological study of medieval Romance literatures, illustrated using examples from texts and textual transmission.
Skills: geochronological mapping of the authors and works, close reading of the texts, methods of textual scholarship will be acquired, being essential in the knowledge, reconstruction and appreciation of medieval Romance literatures.
Key learning outcomes: medieval literary works will be analysed as living objects, in transformation, and as part of century-long (and often multilingual and transmedial) processes involving a complex web of social and cultural relations.
Core secondary school-level grounding in Western literary culture, including reading and analysis skills.
Lectures are in-person and incorporate multimedia tools. After a general introduction, the course will methodically consider all the main aspects of medieval Romance litteratures, as well as of the authors and the texts.
Evaluation (1-30/30) will be twofold: a multiple choice text (about 1h), followed by an oral exam (about 20 min.). The multiple choice test will be based on the course textbook and will consist of thirty questions. Correct answers receive one point, no points are counted for missing responses and random guessing. Eighteen points or above equals a passing mark. If the test is passed, the result stays valid for two consecutive exam sessions (appelli). Successfully passing the multiple choice test is a prerequisite for admittance to the oral exam. The oral exam consists of one or more questions drawn from the lecture and textbooks, reading aloud from a text, sight translation, and explicating one or more of the excerpts analysed during the course.
The course will focus on two complementary aspects of medieval Romance Literatures. On the one hand, authors and authorship, and history, geography and contexts of literary production. On the other hand, the different forms of textual transmission and the edition strategies and techniques employed for publishing Romance literary texts according to scientific standards. The course will give an overview of medieval Romance literatures by means of concrete examples, with the examination of digitised manuscripts and early printings.
For students not attending the course, see below ‘Other information’.
Erasmus students and students with PDP or PEI are invited to contact the teacher at the beginning of the courses.
Students are required to periodically consult the e-learning area of the course and download the indicated materials.
Students are welcome to bring to the oral exam the textbooks as well as their own paper copy (with minimal annotations) of the excerpts analysed during the course.
Course materials are the same for students attending the course and for preparing for the exam independently. Upon prior approval from the professor, students carrying out independent study may choose to substitute the analysis of the excerpts with the reading of a selection of medieval Romance texts (by Week 2). For all queries and further information, please contact the professor by email.