Medieval History [MLitt]

Our History Masters are built around a hands-on research training course, specialised courses on historical and theoretical themes, and other courses developing your technical skills and other abilities like languages and palaeography.

If you choose to study Medieval History, there will be a guided selection of courses that will provide you with the specialised knowledge in that field. You will be taught through a series of seminars and workshops. Internationally recognised historians give guest lectures throughout the year.

In the final part of the programme, you will select a specialised topic and conduct original primary source research for your dissertation. You are supported in your research and writing up by an assigned supervisor with expertise in your field of inquiry.

• Research resources and skills for historians.

Course options may include

• Chivalry and warfare in late Medieval Europe, c1300-1500
• Constructing faith: systems of belief and religious networks in the Middle Ages
• From antiquity to the Middle Ages
• Introduction to medieval manuscript studies
• Barbarians in the Mediterranean
• Popular revolt in the late Middle Ages
• The Crusades
• The Normans
• Medieval paleography.

To widen your approach and develop an interdisciplinary perspective, you are also strongly encouraged to take one or two complementary courses in cognate subjects, such as

• Explorations in the Classical tradition
• Inventing the 'Clash of Civilisations': East against West from Homer to Hadrian
• Approaching the past: sources and methods in medieval Scottish and Celtic Studies
• Themes in later medieval Scottish archaeology
• Early Christian monuments of Scotland
• Heritage and cultural informatics.

Courses in Latin, Scottish literature, English literature, theology, history of art and other College of Arts subjects can also be studied, by agreement with the programme convener.