Acknowledgment

UBC’s Point Grey Campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam). The land it is situated on has always been a place of learning for the Musqueam, who for millennia have passed on their culture, history, and traditions from one generation to the next on this site. I am grateful for the opportunity to teach and learn about languages, literatures (in the broadest richest sense, as word-arts), and cultures from this place.

UBC Vancouver

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Image: Detail, extended descender of a historiated initial, Bible (Latin). Champagne, France. Late 13th / early 14th c. CE). Reims, Bibliothèque municipale Carnegie, MS 40 fol. 83v. Image source: ARCA, digital library of the IRHT (Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, CNRS, France). Retrieved 2024-05-06 from https://arca.irht.cnrs.fr/iiif/106168/canvas/canvas-1281353/view

Welcome to “A World of Marvels”:

when “European Literature from the 5th to the 14th Century” (MDVL 301) & “French Literature from the Middle Ages to the Revolution” (RMST 321) are cross-listed, a monstrous hybrid is created – or, in 12th-century French literary terms, une moult bele conjointure.

This course ran in January-April 2025 and is now over. The present site is a version of the course’s original Canvas site, for archival purposes.

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