Unit GERMANIC PHILOLOGY
- Course
- Foreign languages and cultures
- Study-unit Code
- 35078709
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Carla Falluomini
- Teachers
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- Carla Falluomini
- Hours
- 54 ore - Carla Falluomini
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2017
- Offered
- 2019/20
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline filologiche
- Academic discipline
- L-FIL-LET/15
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Synthetic program: 1. the linguistic changes that have occurred in the old and medieval Germanic languages; 2. the principal texts written in these languages; 3. aspects of the Germanic culture (pre-Christian religion, runes, Christianisation, literacy); 4. relationship between Germanic and other cultures (in particular the Greek and Latin ones).
- Reference texts
1. Nicoletta Francovich Onesti. Filologia germanica. Lingue e culture dei germani antichi, Roma: Carocci, 2015. 2. Beowulf, a cura di Giuseppe Brunetti, Roma: Carocci, 2003. 3. Maria Giovanna Arcamone, “L’elemento germanico antico medievale e moderno (con esclusione dell’inglese)”, in Storia della lingua italiana, a cura di L. Serianni e P.Trifone, III. Le altre lingue, Torino: Einaudi, 1994, pp. 751-790. 4. Anna Maria Guerrieri, “Lettura del Heliand: dottrina in poesia, il nuovo nell'antico”, in Lettura di Heliand, a cura di V. Dolcetti Corazza e R. Gendre, Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2011, pp. 49-94.- Educational objectives
- Knowledge of program and specific bibliography. In particular, s/he should know 1. the linguistic changes that have occurred in the old and medieval Germanic languages; 2. the principal texts written in these languages; 3. aspects of the Germanic culture (pre-Christian religion, runes, Christianisation, literacy); 4. relationship between Germanic and other cultures (in particular the Greek and Latin ones).
- Prerequisites
Prerequisites are not necessary. A basic knowledge of linguistics is desirable.- Teaching methods
- Teaching hours in classroom, with help of slides.
- Other information
Attendance at the course is highly recommended.- Learning verification modality
- The final exam will be oral (at least three questions on the program). The student should be able to answer the questions confidently and knowledgeably.
- Extended program
Main topics of the course: description of the principal features of the old and medieval Germanic languages; examination of their principal changes in respect to other Indo-European languages; analysis of parts of the most important Old Germanic texts: the Gothic Bible, the Old English Beowulf, the Old Saxon Heliand, the Old German Hildebrandslied and the Old Norse sagas; old Germanic religion, runes, Christianisation of the Germanic peoples; literacy; relationship between Germanic and classical cultures.