LING 6220

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LING 6220
From the Conquest to Caxton: Middle English Language, Literatures, History

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

This seminar will explore the English language and its literatures in its most diverse centuries, which 19th century philologists saw as the middle span: after the collapse of Old English language, poetic style, and indigenous power-centers at the Norman Conquest (1066), up to printing (1476), the beginnings of standard Modern English, claims to an English literary tradition, and the origins of Atlantic adventurism and imperialism. Between those benchmarks we'll consider multilingualism, English linguistic diversity and changes, social identity, literary forms, and ideas about language and literature, sampling many Middle English works and more fully reading the Katherine Group, Gawain-poet, Piers Plowman, and Julian of Norwich's Showings.


Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4133, ENGL 6133, LING 4220

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9205 LING 6220   SEM 101

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    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Galloway, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person