Syllabus
CLASS HOURS: W 4:20-6:45 PM, JR348, Class
Number 17244
OFFICE: 803 Sierra Tower
TELEPHONE: 677-0901
E-MAIL: scott.kleinman@csun.edu
WEB SITE: http://www.csun.edu/~sk36711/WWW/630ML/
Required Texts
- Beowulf, trans. Chickering
- The Owl and the Nightingale, ed. Cartlidge
- De Hamel, Scribes and Illuminators
- The Canterbury Tales, ed. Beidler
- Primary and Secondary Texts Online
Assignments
- 25% Mini Web Project
- 30% Group Web Project
- 25% Essay (5 pages)
- 20% Final Exam
Timetable
Please have the listed readings done by the day they are listed.
Week 1: 29 Aug | Riddles 24, 45 (handout) |
Week 2: 5 Sep | Riddles 3, 23, 25, 26, 89 (PDF); De Hamel, pp. 1-44; Cædmon Story; O’Keeffe (Electronic Reserves); Poems from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Electronic Reserves). Note on the readings. |
Week 3: 12 Sep | Beowulf; Chickering's “Backgrounds”; Creed, “The Making of an Anglo-Saxon Poem”; Niles, “Ring Composition and the Structure of Beowulf” |
Week 4: 19 Sep | Class cancelled. Please do the following reading for next week: Beowulf; Chickering's “Backgrounds”; Niles, “Reconceiving Beowulf: Poetry as Social Praxis” |
Week 5: 26 Sep | HTML Workshop |
Week 6: 3 Oct | Mini web project due Psalms: 1 (Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly); 6, Domine ne in furore… ("Lord, rebuke me not in thy fury"); 37, Domine ne in furore… ("Lord, rebuke me not in thy fury"); 50 Miserere mei Deus… ("Have mercy on me, O God"); 68 (St Albans 67.2) (Let God arise; let his enemies be scattered); 95 (O come, let us sing unto the Lord); 150 (Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary); Paris Psalter (in Special Collections); St Albans Psalter: Introduction and assigned psalms; First four pages of White, “Books of Hours and the Bridwell Hours”; The Owl and the Nightingale Note: The Medieval Manuscripts conference will be held on Friday, October 5-Sunday, October 7. You may wish to attend for one or all of the days. Registration is free. |
Week 7: 10 Oct | The Owl and the Nightingale; Holsinger (Electronic Reserves) |
Week 8: 17 Oct | The Owl and the Nightingale |
Week 9: 24 Oct | Dagenais, “Decolonizing the Medieval Page” (Electronic Reserves) |
Week 10: 31 Oct | HTML Workshop 2 “What is mouvance?”;
Case Study, especially the first three
lyrics |
Week 11: 7 Nov | Sir Orfeo, Introduction to Sir Orfeo, and Evans, “Sir Orfeo in Manuscript Context” (Electronic Reserves) |
Week 12: 14 Nov | Group Web Project Due |
Week 13: 21 Nov | General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales; Hilmo, “Framing the Canterbury Pilgrims for the Aristocratic Readers of the Ellesmere Manuscript”; Parks, “Oral Tradition and the Canterbury Tales” |
Week 14: 28 Nov | Wife of Bath; Hanna, “Compilatio and the Wife of Bath” (Electronic Reserves) |
Week 15: 5 Dec | Reading Week |