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Dear students, all courses will be taught as online courses with asynchronous access until further notice. Once you have signed on in PULS and have been admitted in PULS, your instructor will email you via PULS to let you know when and how to access the online material (moodle, etc.). Testatsleistungen (course requirements) may be subject to change. Students who cannot (yet) access PULS: Please email your instructor directly. It is possible that classes can be switched to classroom teaching (Präsenzlehre) at some point during the semester. If this happens, your instructor will let you know and classes will take place at the times originally scheduled.
This course will explore the representation of some key events in English history based on original documents of the medieval and Tudor periods. The main concern will be linguistic analyses of these texts and their relevance for the history of English, from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 16th century. We will also consider the historical context: how events were represented but also, in some instances, misrepresented. As we shall see, false news is not an invention of the modern era. The course is intended for students of language as well as those with an interest in English history. It is recommended that participants are attending the lecture series An Introduction to the History of English, or have attended in a previous semester.
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