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Channel Crossings: Medieval Borders and Alliances in Britain and France French 137x and English 119x, UC Santa Barbara The conquest of England by the Normans in 1066 and the Hundred Years War in the fourteenth-fifteenth centuries marked the beginning and end of an extraordinarily close and ever-shifting relationship between the inhabitants of the Isle of Britain and those of the lands across the English Channel in present-day France. This class will probe the issue of borders and alliances, political, familial, and cultural, by examining in their political and social contexts the legends that crossed and recrossed the channel—those of King Arthur, Guenevere and Lancelot, Tristan and Isolde, and “the patient Griselda.” We will examine the transcription, dissemination, and translation of these texts—their mouvance—as integral to border crossings and cultural alliances. No special academic background is required of students other than the Area A English Reading and Composition Requirement. cjbrown@french-ital.ucsb.edu (Cynthia Brown) - cpaster@english.ucsb.edu (Carol Pasternack)
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