26023 - Medieval Women's Literature

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)

Learning outcomes

The student achieves in-depth knowledge of medieval women's writing. He acquires abilities for the analysis and the interpretation of the literary text.

Course contents

Women in writing

 

From a comparative and gender perspective, the course proposes the study of the various forms of representation, between image and text, of artists and intellectuals in the main literary genres in the Middle Ages.

 

COURSE TIMETABLE

From April 13th, 2021

Tuesday- Wednesday-Thursday

15.30-17.00, FICLIT, Classroom Camporesi

Readings/Bibliography

Primary sources:

Maria di Francia, Lais, Carocci

Christine de Pizan, La Città delle dame, Carocci

Chrétien de Troyes, Philomena (available online) oppure Historia de la doncella Teodor (available online)

Auberée, Carocci

Flamenca, Carocci

Libro de Apolonio, Luni o Carocci

Bibliography of Secondary texts (essays, articles, volumes).

In Progress

 



Teaching methods

Lessons, seminars and conferences given by external scholars.

Language: ITALIAN

Attendance and active participation in the lectures and conferences of the visiting teachers are required. Attendance is compulsory for GEMMA students.

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Teaching tools

Multimedia devices

Office hours

See the website of Patrizia Caraffi

SDGs

Quality education Gender equality

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.