This course is designed as an introduction to the Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer. Students will learn to read, translate, and recite the original Middle English while becoming familiar with Chaucer’s life and times and the social and political climate of late medieval England. This course will also examine various manuscript illustrations of his works as well as some modern electronic means for studying Chaucer and the Middle Ages more generally. No previous knowledge of Middle English is necessary. [AREA 1]
ENG 305: Chaucer
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