ENG 300 16 - Literary Encounters in the Medieval Mediterranean
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In the Middle Ages, the Mediterranean was the site of intense cultural interaction between the peoples who lived and travelled along this important waterway. Trade, warfare, and the diffusion of scholarship all contributed to significant cross-fertilization of ideas. We’ll explore literary texts that reveal rich cross-cultural influences & that challenge the idea that literature is best understood in nationalist terms (e.g. as the exclusive property of one people/culture/geographic/ linguistic group). And using an inter-disciplinary set of readings, we’ll investigate how coexistence as well as conflict shaped the literature of 1000-1500 that developed from Egypt and Syria to North Africa to the Iberian peninsula and Western Europe.
Gen Ed Competency: Listen, Imagine, and Understand.
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