Medieval Studies

MA in Medieval Studies

Mode: part-time

Pathways draw on the University's unrivalled range of academic staff specialising in the Middle Ages across a wide range of disciplines, and is taught in this great medieval maritime port and European cultural melting-pot. Students also have privileged access to work with primary sources in the adjacent great cathedral libraries at Wells and Hereford.

Programme Structure

The MA programme is organised around specialised 'pathways', allowing you to focus on texts and sources using exemplars available in local medieval collections, or on a comparative cultural study, or on historical topics. Each pathway is divided in to three elements.

Compulsory Units

• Research Skills

This course covers topics fundamental to the handling of medieval primary sources such as palaeography, theories of editing and the use of archival resources.

Interdisciplinary seminar series
Staff and a range of eminent visiting medievalists will introduce you to a range of texts, images and concepts central to the study of the European Middle Ages.

Latin
This unit aims to provide you with competence in essential grammar, syntax and vocabulary if you have no previous knowledge of the language. If you are already sufficiently qualified in Latin you may join a more advanced group or substitute the study of another language.

Optional Units
These will cover various themes within History, English and European Literatures, Art History, Drama, Theology and Music.

Dissertation
This consists of a 15,000 - 20,000-word dissertation.