Lesson 1 - English language, its place among Indo-European languages |
Lesson 2 - Germanic languages, their description and classification |
Lesson 3 - North Germanic, Runes |
Lesson 4 - Old North, Viking Age, Iceland and Icelandic literature |
Lesson 5 - Eddas, Þrymskviða |
Lesson 6 - West Germanic, Consonant shift in Proto-Germanic |
Lesson 7 - Old English. Historical Background |
Lesson 8 - Old English Written Records, Cædmon's Hymn |
Lesson 9 - The Beowulf poem |
Lesson 10 - Anglo-Saxon England, Alfred the Great, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle |
Lesson 11 - Norman Conquest, Linguistic Situation, Geoffrey Chauser |
Lesson 12 - The Canterbury Tales, The Prologue, The Miller's Tale |
Lesson 13 - After Chaucer, Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur |
Lesson 14 - Alliterative Revival, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
Lesson 15 - The beginning of Drama |
Lesson 16 - English Drama |
Lesson 17 - Christopher Marlow - Dr Faustus |
Lesson 18 - William Shakespeare |