MEDIEVAL AND HUMANISTIC LATIN LITERATURE

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2018/2019

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in HUMANITIES

Disciplinary Sector:

MEDIEVAL AND HUMANISTIC LATIN LITERATURE

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Intermediate knowledge on Latin language.

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MEDIEVAL AND HUMANISTIC LATIN LITERATURE

HUMANITIES

AF code:

40001339

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Oral.

Teaching period

Second semester

Objectives

Elements of Middle Latin literature;
Elements of textual criticism.
Elements of historical linguistics, with a particular focus on Vulgar Latin and on its contact with romance languages.
Comment of selected parts of G. of Monmouth's, Historia Regum Britanniae.

Contents

Part 1: the lessons will be focussed on a short introduction to the Middle Latin main genres and on the basis of textual criticism.
A part of the lessons will be focussed on the Vulgar Latin and on the contact with Romance languages.
Part 2: Analysis of the G. of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.

Recommended Bibliography

E. DAngelo, La letteratura latina medievale, una storia per generi, Roma 2009 (parti scelte).
Monica Berté Marco Petoletti, La filologia medievale e umanistica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017.
Handouts provided by the teacher on historical linguistics.
Storia dei re di Britannia. Traduzione dal latino, introduzione e note di Gabriella Agrati e Maria Letizia Magini. Biblioteca della Fenice, Guanda, Parma 2005 (selected parts in photocopy).

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Frontal lessons.

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