Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII: Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit

Seth Lerer

Cambridge University Press

<p>This course of 36 lectures surveys the history of the English language, from its origins as a dialect of Germanic-speaking peoples, through the literary and cultural documents of its 1,500-year history, to the state of American speech of the present day. The course is in three parts. Part I focuses on the development of English in its earliest forms. We begin with the study of Indo-European, the posited 5,000-year-old original from which the modern and classical European, Iranian, and Indian languages emerged. The lectures move to the Germanic branch of languages and to the Anglo-Saxons who settled the British Isles beginning in the fifth century. Old English emerges as the literary vernacular of the Anglo-Saxons and flourishes until the Norman Conquest in the mid-eleventh century. The interplay of English, French, and Latin from the eleventh to the fifteenth century generates the forms of Middle English in which Chaucer, among others, wrote, and gives us a sense of a trilingual medieval British culture. Part II begins with the emergence of English as an official language after the decline of French in the fifteenth century. This set of lectures charts the changes in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary that distinguish Middle English from Modern English. It looks closely at the rise of an English literary vernacular, and it suggests some ways in which we can trace changes in word meanings by using the resources of historical dictionaries. Part III focuses on American English and the modes of studying the history of the language today. Professor Seth Lerer is Avalon Foundation Professor in Humanities and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.</p>

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<p>(12 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Course Lecture Titles 1. Introduction to Chaucer's Life and World 2. The Scope of Chaucer's Work 3. Chaucer's Language 4. Chaucerian Themes and Terms 5. Troilus and Criseyde-Love and Philosophy 6. Troilus and Criseyde-History and Fiction 7. The Canterbury Tales-The General Prologue 8. The Canterbury Tales-The First Fragment 9. The Wife of Bath 10. The Pardoner 11. "God's Plenty"-The Variety of The Canterbury Tales 12. Chaucer's Living Influence</p>

Life and Writings of Geoffrey Chaucer CD Course (The Great Courses)

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Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII: Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit

The History of the English Language DVDs: The Teaching Company (The Great Courses)

Life and Writings of Geoffrey Chaucer CD Course (The Great Courses)

The History of the English Language Parts 1-3, 2nd Edition