Medieval Latin Literature

The course aims to provide students with an overview of the main Mediolatin literary genres, which will be examined in their historical evolution and with anthological readings; attention will also be paid to the philological perspective, with an introduction to the problems and techniques of the discipline, particularly in its applications to Latin literature of the Middle Ages.

At the end of the course, the student is expected both to know the fundamental aspects and issues of the Latin literature of the Middle Ages from the 6th to the 14th century, with its main genres, themes, authors and works; and to be able to critically analyze and interpret the texts in relation to the respective contexts of genesis and fruition and to the whole tradition in which they are inserted. The student will also acquire a basic competence in the use of essential bibliographic tools in this field. Furthermore he will be able to consciously and appropriately employ the fundamental concepts and terms of the technical lexicon of philology and to distinguish the level of reliability of the available editions of a text, according to the different methodological lines followed for their preparation.