LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to give a complete picture of origins, structure and evolution of medieval romance languages, to increase the knowledge of the medieval romance literatures by reading vernacular texts, to provide the students with competences about the comparative study of medieval works and about textual criticism.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to give to the students these competences:

1 - the ability to individualize affinities and differences of the languages romances in their development moving from synchrony to diachrony,

2 - the ability to contextualize the development of romance literatures in medieval socioeconomical landscape.

PREREQUISITES

- a good knowledge of italian language and grammar 

- the knowledge of language and grammar of another romance language

- the interest in the medieval literatures

TEACHING METHODS

Frontal classes with multimedia support.

Lessons’ attendance is highly recommended. If the lessons’ attendance is impossible, Students have to conctat professor to agree an additional textbook.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The course will be divided into two parts.
The first part will focus on the formation of the Romance languages, the second one will focus on the system of genres of medieval romance literature, and the analysis of its significant literary works.
 

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 - W. D. Elcock, Le lingue romanze, L’Aquila, Japadre
- for all students: chapters I, II, III, IV;
- for students studying French should also be studied chapter V,  pp. 323-386;
- for students studying spanish, portuguese, spanish-american should also be studied chapter V, pp. 386-437;
- for all the other students should also be studied chapter V, pp. 437-470.

2 - C. Di Girolamo, La letteratura romanza medievale, Bologna, Il Mulino
- chapters I (L’Epica); II (La lirica); III (Il romanzo); IV (Il racconto); VIII (il Teatro).