The course maps early English literature in its historical development: from Anglo-Saxon to early Tudor. Lectures survey cultural and literary trends and styles, such as Old English poetry, the Gothic Renascence, the fourteenth century, and the Early Renaissance, as well as key genres (romances, Mystery plays, Morality plays) and writers (Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain poet). Seminars read closely literary texts (Beowulf, Sir Orfeo, Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Canterbury Tales, Secunda Pastorum, Everyman, lyrical pieces) in cultural context. This Moodle course hosts the seminar classes taught by Dr. Georgi Niagolov