Week 1: Overview of Black Death and Influences on Literature of the Middle Ages/ Introduction to Petrarch and Boccaccio

Week 2: Petrarch/ Selected Poems

Week 3: Boccaccio/The Decameron

Week 4: Boccaccio/The Decameron

Week 5: Chaucer/Canterbury Tales

Week 6: Chaucer/Canterbury Tales