Lecture: Death and Dying in Medieval England
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Teaching
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Faculty Faculty of Humanities Domain English Code UE-L06.01320 Languages English Type of lesson Lecture
Level Master, Bachelor Semester SP-2023 Schedules and rooms
Summary schedule Tuesday 15:15 - 17:00, Hebdomadaire, MIS 03, Room 3113 (Spring semester)
Teaching
Responsibles Teachers Description This course explores the representations of death in poems, plays and prose of medieval England. Attitudes to death may have varied during years of plague and war: Church teaching encouraged the creation of texts that taught people how to die well, and how to be prepared for death in order to avoid eternal punishment in hell; saints’ lives provided positive examples, while pictures and funeral monuments provided terrifying images of mortality. Within the momento mori tradition the dance of death trope evolved, with its combination of visual and textual elements. Images of death in medieval art will be discussed, and presentations of death and dying on the medieval stage.
21.02. Heroic Deaths in Old English
28.02 Villainous Deaths in Old English
07.03 Medical Death
14.03 Death as Resistance: Martyrs
21.03 Slaughtering the Innocents
28.03 Gendered Deaths
04.04 Dying Well
18.04 Death and Despair
25.04 Personifying Death on the medieval stage 1
02.05 Personifying Death on the medieval stage 2
09.05 Lydgate’s Daunce of Poulys
16.05 Christ’s Death
23.05 Presenting Death on the early modern stage
30.05 ConclusionsTraining objectives - Increased familiarity with Old English and Middle English language
- Understanding of concepts of death in historical context
- Familiarity with medieval iconography of Death
- Understanding of literary tradition of ‘how to die well’
- Appreciation of dramatic tradition of staging death
Softskills Yes Off field Yes BeNeFri No Mobility Yes UniPop No -
Dates and rooms
Date Hour Type of lesson Place 21.02.2023 15:15 - 17:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3113 28.02.2023 15:15 - 17:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3113 07.03.2023 15:15 - 17:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3113 14.03.2023 15:15 - 17:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3113 21.03.2023 15:15 - 17:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3113 28.03.2023 15:15 - 17:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3113 04.04.2023 15:15 - 17:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3113 18.04.2023 15:15 - 17:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3113 25.04.2023 15:15 - 17:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3113 02.05.2023 15:15 - 17:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3113 09.05.2023 15:15 - 17:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3113 16.05.2023 15:15 - 17:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3113 23.05.2023 15:15 - 17:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3113 30.05.2023 15:15 - 17:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3113 -
Assessments methods
Examen - SP-2023, Session d'été 2023
Assessments methods By rating, By success/failure Examen - SP-2023, Autumn Session 2023
Assessments methods By rating, By success/failure Examen - SA-2023, Session d'hiver 2024
Assessments methods By rating, By success/failure Examen - SP-2024, Session d'été 2024
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