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Medieval Literature: Dante, Boccaccio, Chaucer

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21L.460
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2015English
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The course explores the literary masterworks of three of the most celebrated authors of the Middle Ages in their original literary and historical contexts. The various themes they take up - the importance of writing in the vernacular; the discourse of love as a form of discipline practised upon the self; the personal and political aspirations of the self in society; the constitution of ideal forms of social organization; the role of religion in the life and works of lay authors - transformed…

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