Medieval French literature (12th-15th centuries)

Teacher(s)

Cavagna Mattia;

Language

French

Prerequisites

Students will have been introduced to the characteristics of medieval French. 

Main themes

The course includes both linguistic training - following on from the History of the French Language course - and training in literary analysis. 
The course will focus on the following themes:  

• The emergence and development of French-language literature 
• The most representative literary genres of medieval French literature (12th to 15th centuries) 
• The main features of medieval French: morphology, syntax, phonetics and vocabulary. 
• The main phenomena in the evolution from Bas-Latin to Old French 
• Literary and stylistic analysis of medieval texts, with particular attention to the literary techniques specific to each of the genres. 

The 10 hours of practical work will be devoted to the translation and linguistic analysis of the texts on the programme. 

Faculty or entity

> ELAL