Date

Theme

Readings

Jan 19

The medieval poet

Widsith http://www.soton.ac.uk/~enm/widsith.htm

Deor http://www.kami.demon.co.uk/gesithas/readings/deor_me.html 

Bede and Caedmon’s Hymn  http://www.heorot.dk/bede-caedmon.html 

Jan 26–Feb 2

The poet at work

Beowulf http://www.heorot.dk/beo-intro-rede.html or   
   http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/beowulf.html

Juliana http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Juliana_Kennedy.pdf

Judith http://www.elfinspell.com/Judith.html

Elene http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Elene_Kennedy.pdf

The Dream of the Rood http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/oe/rood-trans.html

 Feb 23

 Visions of the Individual

The Wanderer  http://research.uvsc.edu/mcdonald/wanderweb/trans1.htm

The Sefarer  http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=text&id=Sfr

March 2

Origins of the Arthurian story

Layamon's Brut  http://www.technicalmuse.com/3318/content/layamon_brut.htm 

March 9

The Aristocratic Vision

Yvain http://www.blackmask.com/olbooks/yvain.htm

March 23–30

Permutations

Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell http://www.lone-star.net/mall/literature/gawain.htm

Sir Orfeo http://www.elfinspell.com/EERSirOrfeo.html

The original version: Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book 10, lines 1-106
   http://classics.mit.edu/Ovid/metam.10.tenth.html

Sir Launfal http://www.elfinspell.com/MasonSirLaunfal.html

April 6

Arthur and the monastery

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight  http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/sggk.htm

April 13

Merit and the Eternal

The Pearl http://alliteration.net/Pearlman.html

April 20

 Ordinary weaknesses

Mankynd http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/ENGL325/mankind.htm

April 27–May 4

 Tragedy or comedy?

Troilus and Criseyde  http://tkline.pgcc.net/PITBR/English/Chaucerhome.htm