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Academic Year 2005/2006


Knights, Fools and Lovers: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance French Culture
FREN 230 SP

This course will help students acquire a basic awareness of the history of French culture from the 12th through the 16th centuries and develop their ability to imagine other -- past and fictional -- worlds through a study of medieval chivalry and the Renaissance carnival.

MAJOR READINGS

Bernard de Clairvaux, ELOGE DE LA VOUVELLE CHEVALERIE
Chrétien de Troyes, LE CONTE DU GRAIL
Raymond Lulle, LIVRE DE L'ORDRE DE CHEVALERIE
Georges Duby, LES `JEUNES' DANS LA SOCIÉTÉ ARISTOCRATIQUE DANS LA FRANCE AU XIIE SIÉCLE
Georges Duby, GUILLAUME LE MARÉCHAL
Christian et Marie-Claire Betholet, LE CARNAVAL DE SAINT-DIDIER-LA-SÉAUVE
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, LE CARNAVAL DE ROMANS
Rabelais, GARGANTUA
Natalie Zemon Davis, THE REASONS OF MISRULE
Mikkail Bakhtine, L'OEUVRE DE FRANÇOIS RABELAIS ET LA CULTURE POPULAIRE AU MOYEN AGE ET SOUS LA RENAISSANCE
Umberto Eco, THE FRAMES OF COMIC FREEDOM
Selected works of various troubadours and trouvéres

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

3-4 short papers

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

While any student who has completed FREN215 (with a minimum grade of B) or has placed out of FREN215 through the placement test may sign up for this course. It is an introductory course intended for students who have just completed 215 or not taken more than one course in French beyond 215 and not yet studied abroad in a French-speaking country.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA RLAN    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-30-2006


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