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Instructor:
Daniel
Mosser Phone:
(540)
231-7797 E-mail: Office:
Shanks 231 FAX:
(540)
231-5692 CRN:
96115 Classroom:
Torgersen
2060 Office
Hours:
MW 10-11:30AM & by appointment Class
Time:
5PM-7:50 W
Class e-mail list: 5114@wiz.cath.vt.edu
- This course will explore the medieval British historiographical convention that connected Britain's founding with the Trojan diaspora, and the ways that this historical view informs Middle English literary texts. In this paradigm, the eponymous founder of Britain was Brut, grandson of Aeneas, and London is New Troy/Troynovant. Texts will include Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, John Lydgate's Troy Book (selections), the opening lines of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Brut, Goeffrey of Monmouth (Historia Regum Britanniae), and other source materials and pertinent criticism.