ME3407 COURTROOM DRAMAS:  LITERATURE, LAW AND LORDSHIP
   
Lecturer Prof John G H Hudson (Room 11, 71 South Street)
   
Credits 30
   
Availability Not available 2011-12
   
Class Hour  
   
Description This option examines the literary, socio-political and legal culture of the secular aristocracy in England and Northern France during the twelfth century, with particular concentration upon the vernacular literature of the period.  It considers honour and shame;  the sources and uses of seigniorial power, kinship and family;  gender;  love and other emotions;  counsel;  violence and peace making;  courtroom skills and procedures.
   
Basic Reading
  • Song of Roland
  • Beroul, Tristan
  • Chretian de Troyes, Lancelot
   

Course Structure

One two-hour meeting per week
   
Assessment

60% examination - 3-hour paper
40% coursework - 3 pieces of work one of which may be an oral assessment
   

Learning Outcomes
  • Introduction to approaches to literary texts
  • Development of use of social and cultural anthropology
  • Increasing historiographical awareness, and capacity for historiographical debate
  • Development of independent study in a group context
 
   
Restrictions None