17351
Advanced Seminar
WiSe 19/20: S-Literatures of Medieval Britain: Troilus and Criseyde
Wolfram Keller
Comments
The Troy story was the most widely-disseminated secular narrative in medieval Europe, partially because many rulers believed to be descendants of the Trojans. Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde focuses only on a single episode, but it does so with reference to the entire story of the destruction of Troy. At the beginning of the semester, we will discuss (in English translations) Chaucer’s sources, Giovanni Boccaccio’s Il Filostrato as well as Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie. Subsequently, we will analyze Troilus and Criseyde, especially concerning Chaucer’s transformation of his sources, his construction of classical antiquity, and the poem’s engagement with questions regarding the writing of poetry. Toward the end of the semester, we will briefly look at the reception of Chaucer’s poem in the fifteenth century, for example, in Robert Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid. close
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Mon, 2019-10-14 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-10-21 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-10-28 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-11-04 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-11-11 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-11-18 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-11-25 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-12-02 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-12-09 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-12-16 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2020-01-06 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2020-01-13 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2020-01-20 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2020-01-27 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2020-02-03 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2020-02-10 10:00 - 12:00