Parents and Children in Medieval Literature
An INTRO PS aimed at 1st year BA students
Although the Middle Ages is, in the popular imagination, the time of ‘courtly romance’, medieval texts are often – perhaps more often – concerned with other kinds of love, particularly family love, bonds between siblings or between parents and offspring. Medieval stories of fathers and mother and their daughters or sons are sometimes drawn from classical or biblical sources, and sometimes from folklore. In this course we will explore stories of many kinds, told in different genres – poetry, prose and drama – that illustrate aspects of parent-child relationships, good and bad.
- Docente: Elisabeth Dutton