| Unit name | Reading Old and Middle French |
|---|---|
| Unit code | MODLM2011 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
| Unit director | Professor. Marianne Ailes |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | School of Modern Languages |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
The unit aims to give students a reading knowledge and basic grammatical understanding of Old and Middle French. The unit is taught through short extracts from a range of texts. Grammatical principles are explained as they occur within texts from different genres and periods from the earliest Old French texts to the fifteenth century. Older French texts and normally in verse and display a wider range of sentence structure than the later prose texts. On the other hand earlier texts usually have the line as a sense unit making it easier to translate in smaller units. Half of the course will concentrate on French of the 12th and 13th centuries and will offer opportunities to explore the peculiarities of Old French dialects; the other half will focus on the development of Old French into the Middle French period.
