Course on a single topic on the basis of linguistic and literary competences acquired during the course of Romance Philology I
The course aims to give a complete picture of origins, structure and evolution of medieval romance languages, in order to increase the knowledge of the medieval romance literatures by reading vernacular texts, provide the students with competences on comparative study of medieval works and on textual criticism.
The course aims to give the students these competences:
1 – ability to read literary medieval texts in original language,
2 – ability to contextualize medieval works in the socioeconomical landscape in which they are written.
3 – ability to do perform a full linguistic and rhetorical analysis on medieval texts.
Frontal classes with multimedia support
Seminar with prof. Martina di Febo.
Lessons’ attendance is highly recommended. If lessons’ attendance is impossible, students need to conctat the professor to concert an additional textbook.
The subject of the course is «Monsters and marvels of Ireland».
During the lessons medieval texts describing Ireland as a land full of wonders will be analyzed: monsters, marvels and miracles that are charming and horrifying, stunning and terrible at the same time, bounded to become part of the european collective imagination to the present day. A land that was seen as the clearest expression of physical and material, but also human and social otherness that gives in addition a good frame of references of a political and religious nature.
The seminar held by prof. Martina di Febo on «The saint Patrick’s purgatory (prose versions)» is integral part of the course.
Maria di Francia, Il purgatorio di san Patrizio, edizione critica, traduzione, commento e note a c. di S. M. Barillari, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2004.
Giraldo Cambrense, Topographia ibernica, a c. di F. De Falco, Aicurzio, Virtuosa-Mente, 2017.
27/02/2018
Oral exam
The examination will consist in an oral check on the course's subject and its critical bibliography during which some questions will be asked by the Commission. Students will have to read, translate and comment one or more texts analyzed during the lessons, and will have to be able to discuss the topics adressed in the seminar. Student's evaluation will take into account not only the knowledge of the course's contents but also a good explanation and a correct use of the philology's specific language.
If the lessons’ attendance is impossible, Students have to conctat the professor to concert an additional textbook.
Skills and competences acquired during the study will be verified by:
1 – translation of textual extracts analyzed during the lessons
2 – abiliy to put texts in their historical and cultural contexts
3 – linguistic and stylistic analysis of texts
