Course Syllabus
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Lecture 1 The Anglo-Saxons and Their World
Lecture 2 Language and Culture
Lecture 3 The Migration and the Germanic Past
Lecture 4 The Conversion: The School of Theodore and Hadrian
Lecture 5 The “Golden Age” and the Venerable Bede: Double Monasteries, Missionaries, Conversion, and the Making of Beautiful Books
Lecture 6 The Viking Age: Destruction and Revival
Lecture 7 King Alfred and the Rebuilding: The Rescue and Consolidation of a Kingdom
Lecture 8 The Years of Reform
Lecture 9 Anglo-Saxon Literature: Religious
Lecture 10 Anglo-Saxon Literature: Personal, Wisdom, and Riddles
Lecture 11 Anglo-Saxon Literature: Epic and Heroic
Lecture 12 The Norman Conquest and the End of Anglo-Saxon England
Lecture 13 From the Norman Conquest to the Reformation: The Use of Anglo-Saxon
Lecture 14 From Thomas Jefferson to Angelina Jolie: The Long Life of Anglo-Saxon
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Course Overview
Had the Angles and Saxons not purposefully
migrated to the isles of the Britons and brought with
them their already-well-developed use of language,
Angelina Jolie may never have appeared in the movie
Beowulf. Professor Michael D.C. Drout is at his best
when lecturing on the fascinating history, language,
and societal adaptations of the Anglo-Saxons. He
not only presents their storytelling abilities using
their own words; he does so in their own voice—the
incredibly melodious Old English. Drout’s
scholarship and recognized expertise on this subject
is of the highest caliber.
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 Anglo-Saxon World (Booklet)
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Professor
Professor Michael D.C. Drout
(Wheaton College)
Michael D.C. Drout is an associate professor of English at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, where he teaches courses in Old and Middle English, medieval literature, Chaucer, fantasy, and science fiction.
Professor Drout received his Ph.D. in medieval literature from Loyola Universi...
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Course Final Exam
Literature
