Undergraduate Course: The Quest for Identity in Medieval Spain (Ordinary) (ELCH09001)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all 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. |
| 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 | Ordinary students and visiting students only. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 0 |
| 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, 1,200 words
45% - 1 commentary, 700 words
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| Feedback |
Oral formative feedback throughout the course.
Written feedback for the commentary and the comparative essay. |
| No Exam Information |
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
Apart from The Poem of the Cid and Tirant lo Blanc, 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
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
Poem of the Cid, The, trans. by Rita Hamilton and Janet Perry (London: Penguin Books, 1984)
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 |
| Special Arrangements |
Students may enrol on the course ONLY with the explicit permission of the Spanish 3 Course Organiser. |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Sergi Mainer
Tel: (0131 6)50 8966
Email: sergi.mainer@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Hope Hamilton
Tel: (0131 6)50 4167
Email: hope.hamilton@ed.ac.uk |
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