Undergraduate Course: The Quest for Identity in Medieval Spain (ELCH10012)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | From a comparative perspective, this course will examine the construction of national, gender and class identities in the cultures of medieval Spain.
The course will be taught in English and all texts will also be available in English translation.
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| Course description |
The objective of this option course is to deepen the knowledge of the Middle Ages in general and of different vernacular cultures of Spain (understood in the medieval sense of the Iberian Peninsula) in particular. Through the analysis of epic, romance, lyric and tragicomedy, we will trace the emergence and transformation of national, gender and class identities and the exchanges between Castilian, Catalan, Galician-Portuguese and Occitan cultures.
The growing interdisciplinary field of medieval studies has led to literature being approached from broader cultural and intellectual perspectives. Such perspectives will allow us to examine both the inescapable tensions between social norms and subversion, and the ever-present interaction between the political and the aesthetic.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Entry to Spanish Hons required, unless taken as part of Spanish 3 |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2022/23, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 18 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 22,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
174 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
55% - 1 comparative essay 1,500 words
45% - 1,000-word commentary
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| Feedback |
Oral formative feedback during the course.
Written feedback for both the commentary and the comparative essay. |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand the different cultures of medieval Iberia in the wider context of the European Middle Ages
- Reflect critically and make judgements in light of evidence and argument
- Extract and synthesise key information from written and spoken sources
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Reading List
All translations (apart from that of Tirant lo Blanc) are available online. However, La Celestina is not fully downloadable for more than 21 days.
500 Cantigas d'Amigo: Edição Crítica / Critical Edition, trans. by Rip Cohen (Johns Hopkins University, 2003) available at https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/33843
From Dawn to Dawn - Sixty Troubadour Poems, trans. by A.S. Kline (Poetry in Translation, 2009) available at https://www.poetryintranslation.com/klineasdawn.php
Lay of the Cid, The, trans. by Leonard Bacon (Project Gutenberg, 2004) available at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6088
March, Ausiàs. A Key Anthology, ed. and trans. by Robert Archer (Sheffield: The Anglo-Catalan Society, 1992) available at https://www.anglo-catalan.org/downloads/acsop-monographs/issue08.pdf
Martorell, Joanot. Tirant lo Blanc, trans. by D.H. Rosenthal (London: Macmillan, 1984) ¿ Kindle Edition also available
Rojas, Fernando de. La Celestina, trans. by Margaret Sayers Peden (Newhaven and London: Yale University Press, 2009)
available at https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ed/detail.action?pq-origsite=primo&docID=3420462 (you'll need to be logged in your university account)
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | DELC Quest for ID |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Sergi Mainer
Tel: (0131 6)50 8966
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Course secretary | Miss Kat Zabecka
Tel: (0131 6)50 4026
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