Courses

MVGA 6227:
The French of England II: Texts and Manuscripts

Taught by Professors Thelma Fenster and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Meetings are Tuesdays 5.30-7.30 with practicum 4.30-5.30

There will be three strands in this intensive course of three hours per week (i) a linguistic practicum with grammatical study, exercises and quizzes; (ii) an intensive study of Matthew Paris’s Estoire de seint Aedward le rei from manuscript to transcription to edition to literary-historical study, using both the digitized MS on the web and the ANTS edition of this text; and (iii) each student will be supplied via microfilm or other media (plus, in the case of accessible MSS in USA repositories) a manuscript trip, and will each work on, and present as their course project a mini-edition of their chosen prologue, a transcription, edition, translation, annotation, glossary, bibliography and brief literary-historical contextualizing essay.

Syllabus

4.305.306.30
Sept 3 [No practicum] Introduction
TF JWB 		Introductory practicum
JWB
Sept 10practicum
TF		Aedward tr. Explic. (lexis, syntax)
Erec et Enide
Sept 17practicum
JWB		AedwardExplic. Rhyme and prosody
Sept 24practicum
TF		AedwardLit/hist background
Annotation
Oct 1practicum
JWB		AedwardMS catalogue Descriptions: codicol.
Oct 8practicum
TF		Aedwardpaleography transcription
[Oct 15: Columbus Day: no meeting]
[Oct 22: Assigned Explications due: choice of prologue to be made]
Oct 22practicum
JWB		AedwardSource comparison
Aelred
Oct 29practicum
TF		Aedward
Auban trans.		Aedward and Auban
Nov 5practicum
JWB		AedwardM.Paris and the Jews
Nov 12practicum
TF		AedwardStudent Prologues
Nov 19practicum
JWB		AedwardStudent Prologues
Nov 26practicum
TF		AedwardStudent Prologues
Dec 3practicum
JWB		AedwardStudent Prologues
Dec 10practicum
TF		AedwardStudent Prologues