Recent Course Offerings

To give a sense of the Section's profile, here is an incomplete list of courses offered at various times in the period 2013–2018:

• Lecture Course: Old English Literature


• Lecture Course: Medieval English Literature 1200–1500


• Lecture Course: History of the English Language


• Lecture Course: The Bible and Medieval English Literature


• Lecture Course: Medieval Textual Culture


• Manuscript to Text: Readings in Middle English Literature


• The Logic of the Middle English Anthology


• The Old English Poetical Manuscripts: Text and Context


• So grete diuersite: English in Change


• The Junius Manuscript


• Reading and Editing the Medieval Manuscript


• Introduction to English Linguistics


• Manuscripts in Vercelli


• Introduction to Medieval English Literature and Culture


• Middle English Visionary Literature


• The Knight Sets Forth: Middle English Chivalrous Romances


• England and the Crusades


• Peer Assisted Medieval English Studies


• Literary Environments of Middle English Poetry


• A boc be gehwilcum þingum: The Exeter Book


• The Vikings and the Anglo-Saxons


• Women in Early Medieval England


• Fate and Fortune in Old English Literature


• Conversion and Continuity in the Medieval North


• The Cosmic Conflict in Old English Literature


• The Bible and Old English Literature


• Middle English Biblical Literature


• Religious Books in Anglo-Saxon England


• Kulturbeziehungen im frühen Mittelalter: angelsächsische und altsächsische Texte im Vergleich


• Chaucer/Boccaccio


• How to diss a fella in 991: Introducing Historical Pragmatics


• Things, Names, Processes: English Words in History


• The Language of Chaucer


• Pain and Pleasure in Medieval Literature and Culture


• The Medieval Family


• Digital Palaeography


• Healing and the Body in Early Medieval England


• Anglo-Saxon Riddles


• Middle English Lyrics


• Landmarks of Old English Poetry


• Englishness in the Middle Ages


• Self and Identity in the Middle Ages


• Self-Formation in Medieval Literature and Culture


• Wicked Rulers and Just Governance


• Medieval English Travel Writing


• Medieval Themes and Myths in George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones


• In the Flesh: Medieval English and its Manuscript Sources


• The History of English Dialects


• The Culture of Translation


• The Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England


• Chaucer


• The Natural World in Middle English Literature


• The Middle English Hero


• The Gawain Poet: Puns, Death, Beheading Games and Magic


• Medieval Drama


• The Canterbury Tales


• Old English Prose


• The Natural World in Anglo-Saxon England


• Beowulf


• Medieval English Poems in Modern Translation


• Medieval Literature Reading Group