Romance Philology

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will acquire:

1) Knowledge and understanding, in the linguistic field, of the dynamics of historical formation of Romance languages, of their geographical location, of the major differences and similarities between them, of the linguistic structures that develop in diachrony in the passage from Latin to derived varieties; in the literary field, he will acquire knowledge about  the formation of literary genres in the Middle Ages, according to a comparative perspective. 2) Basic skills relating to the application of linguistic-literary knowledge acquired to the reading of medieval novel texts 3) Learning skills related to the formation processes of languages and literary systems in their germinal stages, thanks to the attention that will be paid to methodological and historical-cultural aspects