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Print this PageENGL 016. Chaucer
Readings in Middle English of most of Chaucer's poetry with emphasis on The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. The course attempts to place the poetry in a variety of critical and cultural contexts which help to illuminate Chaucer's art. Medieval cultural readings include Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, and Andreas Capellanus' The Art of Courtly Love.
Med/Ren
Humanities.
1 credit.
Eligible for MDST
Catalog chapter: English Literature
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature
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