Gender Switching in Medieval Literature

Considering one of the most popular Iceland literature, Njal's Saga is a story written by anonymous writers shortly after the collapse of the Icelandic Commonwealth. This legend explains the bloody feud caused by minor misunderstanding, but also represents the Christian process reaching Scandinavia. Through the use of many stock characters, this story is surprisingly similar to Nibelungenlied, and this Germanic epic also ended with a tragedy. Some of the arrogant heroes are not only the hero wishing revenge, others are too trusting their wives too much.

We introduce literary works of various medieval European traditions and genres. For example, literature of women in medieval Europe, J. Professor Frakes In this course we will explore the literature of women in medieval Europe, mainly women's literature, and several male articles on women or women. These texts cover the period from the early Middle Ages to the 17th century, including French, German, Italian, Greek, Yiddish, and Latin texts, showing a wide range of genres including those at the time It is. Epic, letters, theater, theology, biography and romantic erotic fables

In this course we will explore the sex, gender and expression attitudes in the Middle Ages. While reading medieval literature and contemporary theory, the question of the relationship between the body and the soul, the boundary between masculinity and femininity, and how the "culture" and "nature" are thought to affect gender identity think. This course will introduce students a critical theory on literature, popular culture, and gender and sexuality. Through elaborate reading, class discussion, critical writing, students ask how they intersect with the cultural structure of gender and other identity categories (countries, races, classes, etc.).

This course has two objectives. It is to introduce various medieval literature to students and study their legacy in contemporary times. Since the 19th century, literature has tended to use the superstitious "medieval" concept as superstitious "medieval" concept as the golden age to criticize the current problem, or superstitious "medieval" concept as an era of superstitious advance awareness and ignorance had. The medieval discourse is a field that is booming in medieval research, and not only the students critically view various literatures from distant historical periods, but also opportunities to present these images, distort themselves and inappropriately . It is a method. We clarify the meaning of their background and redeploy them to a clear contemporary agenda. Students study medieval literature themselves and modern expressions of the Middle Ages and try to understand the complicated means to approach the past.