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 | A study of seminal texts from the Spanish Middle Ages. |
| Course description |
Through a study of the literature of medieval Spain, coupled with an introduction to medieval Spanish culture (its history, art and architecture), this course will chart the emergence of national, cultural and individual identity in the Iberian Peninsula. By focusing on key themes such as love and death, war and religion, it will show how social conformity is constantly challenged and undermined by the subversive instincts of the Middle Ages.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | Entry to Spanish Hons required, unless taken as part of Spanish 3 |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand the Spanish Middle Ages 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 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. The White Knight: Tirant lo Blanc, trans. by Robert S. Rudder (Project Gutenberg, 1995) available at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/378
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 |
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| Keywords | DELC Quest for ID |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Sergi Mainer
Tel: (0131 6)50 8966
Email: sergi.mainer@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Kat Zabecka
Tel: (0131 6)50 4026
Email: K.Zabecka@ed.ac.uk |
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