Sargan, James
TR 11:10 AM
Park Hall 0250
Medieval literatures could be diseminated in a number of ways: they might be sung, performed, read aloud, or written, compied, and shared among elite (and not-so-elite) literate audiences. In this course we will read some of these literatures thinking about literacy, orality, and writing about writing. Students can expect to read texts that stage writing, reading, and speaking in a number of ways and learn to look for the clues those texts are giving us about the dispersal of medieval media. Examples of reading might include: medieval debate poetry, the York plays, extracts from Gower's Confessio Amantis, and/or medieval hymns and carols. Students will practice reading some Middle English.