239718 The Later Plantagenets: England in the 14th and 15th Centuries (S) (SoSe 2014)

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"Englishness is more about Crécy than about cups of tea." (Ian Mortimer)
The king who defined the English nation was Edward III. His long wars - fought from 1333 to 1356 in Scotland, and from 1337 to 1360 in France - transformed England. The cost of the wars made it necessary for the king to negotiate with the Commons for higher taxes; he reestablished English as the language of the courts; he achieved a measure of juridical independence from Rome; he instituted many unifying symbols of English identity that survive until today (like Windsor Castle and the Order of the Garter). After his death, the consequences of the Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt and the reverberations of the Wars of the Roses contributed to a re-definition of (royal, seigneurial, religious) authority. In this seminar we will explore the question of how people living in England in the later Middle Ages came to self-identify as Englishmen and -women and how their allegiances manifest themselves in a variety of cultural forms.

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We will read mostly extracts from fictional and non-fictional texts, among the definitely Shakespeare's King Richard II, which you must read in an annotated critical edition (i.e. Oxford, Cambridge, Arden, Penguin).

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every two weeks Do 12-16 C01-252 07.04.-18.07.2014
not on: 6/19/14

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23-ANG-AngVM1 Vertiefungsmodul 1: Britain 1.2 British Literature: Genre, Periods, Authors Study requirement
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Degree programme/academic programme Validity Variant Subdivision Status Semester LP  
Anglistik: British and American Studies / Bachelor (Enrollment until SoSe 2011) Kern- und Nebenfach BaAngPM3; BaAngPM3.1; BaAngPM4    
Anglistik: British and American Studies / Master of Education (Enrollment until SoSe 2014) BaAngPM3; BaAngPM3.1; BaAngPM4    
Anglistik: British and American Studies (GHR) / Master of Education (Enrollment until SoSe 2014) BaAngPM3; BaAngPM3.1; BaAngPM4    
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This seminar will be taught in conjunction with Marion Schulte's seminar of the same name. We will take it in turns to teach the (four-hour!) sessions; my turn starts on 10(!) April (the first session of the semester). Although it is entirely possible to attend each seminar individually, students are strongly encouraged to combine the two, to get the bigger, linguistic, literary, cultural and political picture.

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