English 536: Medieval Literature Schedule

Week One:(Aug 27)	M: Introduction
	W: Anglo-Saxon culture; Anglo-Saxon Poems FROM WEBPAGE: Riddles, Wanderer, Seafarer, Ruin, Wife’s Lament, Dream of the Rood
Week Two:(Sept. 3)	M: Holiday
	W: Anglo Saxon poetry cont; begin Beowulf, lines 1-200
Week Three:(Sept. 10)	M: Beowulf: lines 200-1250.
	W: Beowulf: lines 1250-1759
Week Four: (Sept. 17)	M: Beowulf: lines 1760-3180, digressions
	W:Tristan
Week Five: (Sept. 24)	M: Tristan and Marie de France: Chevrefeuille
	W: Tristan
Week Six: (Oct. 1)	M: Marie de France: Prologue and Lanval
	W: Guigemar
Week Seven: (Oct. 8)	M: La Fresne and Laustic
	W: Yonec and Bisclavret
Week Eight: (Oct. 15)	M: Eliduc
	W: Midterm
Week Nine: (Oct. 22)	M: In-Class Manuscript Exercise
	W: Mabinogion: “Pwyll” and “Branwen”
Week Ten: (Oct. 29)	M: Mabingion: “Lludd” and “How Culhwch Won Olwen”
	W: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight I-II
Week Eleven: (Nov. 5)	M: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. II-III. Manuscript Exercise due
	W: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight III-IV
Week Twelve: (Nov. 12)	M: Holiday
	W: Pearl. Paper Due
Week 13: (Nov. 19)	M: Chaucer: The Miller’s Tale
	W: Chaucer: The Franklin’s Tale
Week 14: (Nov. 26)	M: Malory
	W: Malory
Week 15: (Dec. 3)	M: Malory
	W: Malory

English 536: Medieval Literature Reading List

The Romance of Tristan: The Tale of Tristan's Madness (Beroul, trans. Fedrick)
The Mabinogion (Anon., trans. Gantz)
King Arthur & His Knights (Malory)
Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, and Pearl (Anon., trans. Boroff)
The Lais of Marie de France (ed. Glyn Burgess)
The Saga of the Volsungs (ed. Byock)
The Inferno (Dante, ed. Mandelbaum)
The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer, ed. Hieatt and Hieatt)

Other works in PDF (on webpage):
Old English Poetry: The Wanderer, Wife's Lament, Dream of the Rood, Ruin , Riddles
Old English Poetry: Seafarer
Chaucer: The Miller's Tale
Chaucer: The Franklin's Tale