ROMANCE PHILOLOGY

The Fabliaux as a Philological Problem
The course aims to contribute to the development of knowledge and skills that are the objective of the course by addressing a philological theme. The manuscript tradition of the Old French fabliaux (13th-14th century) is particularly "active": the copyists freely elaborated the models they were copying, and in some cases also recorded the results of the oral performances of the jongleurs. The lessons will present the study of some particularly relevant cases, and a reconstruction of the cultural context in which the copyists of vulgar texts worked in medieval France.

Knowledge
- overall picture of the copying practice in the vulgar Middle Ages;
Skills
- acquisition of linguistic and textual schemes to be used in contrastive analysis.

Basic knowledge of Old French language and literature.

- The copying practice in the vernacular Middle Ages;
- fabliaux's scribes.

Texts and bibliography will be provided during the lessons, and made available on the Moodle platform.

Oral modality: textual analysis.

Analysis of textual variance.

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During the year, a seminar will be organized. It will be open to undergraduates students, to students of the Graduate Program and to anyone interested. It will be dedicated to "Western Encounters with Asia (Late Ancient to Fourteenth Century)". The seminar will be divided into two parts, one per semester; his attendance will entitle any participant to 3 or 6 ECTS of activity equivalent to a Stage. Information on dates and times will be provided in early September 2021.

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