No advance preparation is required for this module. However, we will be reading several texts in their original Middle English. (Texts written in medieval Latin and French will be provided in translation.) If you'd like to do some optional preparation work, then I would encourage you to 'brush up' on your Middle English skills, for example by re-visiting material from ESH129 (Literatures in Time), notably on Chaucer's Middle English. You might also want to 'dip into' some Middle English learning resources, such as Harvard's University's Learning Middle English webpage or books about medieval English language and literature. One language-focused book is J. A. Burrow and Thorlac Turville-Petre, eds., A Book of Middle English, 3rd edn. (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005). An earlier edition (published in 1996) is available at the QMUL Library: P281 BUR. However, please don't worry too much about this. If you are new to Middle English, then please feel encouraged to take this module! The module convenor will support you with your study of the language, and the editions we'll be using in class are well-glossed, so you will have lots of help along the way. To be clear, then, there is no requirement to have read anything in Middle English before in order to take this module.