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LITERATURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code	Name of the Course Unit	Semester	In-Class Hours (T+P)	Credit	ECTS Credit
ELL423	LITERATURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES	5	3	3	5

WEEKLY COURSE CONTENTS AND STUDY MATERIALS FOR PRELIMINARY & FURTHER STUDY
Week	Preparatory	Topics(Subjects)	Method
1	-	Introduction to the course and discussion on the topics of the following weeks	Lecture & Discussion
2	Reading the Material Assigned	Discussion on the following topics: feudality, astronomy, magic, the Catholic Church, the inquisition, chivalry, courtly love	Lecture & Discussion
3	Reading the Material Assigned	Discussion on the theoretical background of the Middle Ages: St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, Ibn Rushd (Averroes)	Lecture & Discussion
4	Reading the Material Assigned	Selected cantos(chapters) from Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy: Hell	Lecture & Discussion
5	Reading the Material Assigned	Selected cantos(chapters) from Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy: Hell	Lecture & Discussion
6	Reading the Material Assigned	Selections from Boccaccio’s Decameron	Lecture & Discussion
7	Reading the Material Assigned	Selections from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales	Lecture & Discussion
8	-	MID-TERM EXAM	-
9	Reading the Material Assigned	Selections from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales	Lecture & Discussion
10	Reading the Material Assigned	Everyman	Lecture & Discussion
11	Reading the Material Assigned	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	Lecture & Discussion
12	Reading the Material Assigned	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	Lecture & Discussion
13	Reading the Material Assigned	Selections from Christine de Pisan’s The Book of the City of Ladies	Lecture & Discussion
14	Reading the Material Assigned	Selections from Christine de Pisan’s The Book of the City of Ladies	Lecture & Discussion
15	Reading the Material Assigned	Selections from Christine de Pisan’s The Book of the City of Ladies	Lecture & Discussion
16	-	FINAL EXAM	-
17	-	FINAL EXAM	-