MA Medieval and Early Modern Textual Cultures 1381 - 1688 (Part time)
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Master
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Norwich
This MA course offers you the opportunity to study medieval and early-modern literature in its historical, intellectual, cultural and material contexts. You will be given an advanced introduction to a range of major English texts from the period and to the continental European authors who informed and shaped them. We set Chaucer, Lydgate, Henryson, Spenser and Sidney beside Petrarch, Poliziano, Erasmus, Rabelais and Montaigne.
At the centre of the course is an emphasis on the varieties of medieval and early-modern 'humanism', a complex movement which enabled new understandings of the classical world, of our place within history and of our relationship to language. Our teaching is founded upon the close-reading of primary texts. Large historical and intellectual issues are allowed to grow out of specific passages, without losing sight of literary texts' formal and aesthetic qualities.
The MA has a strongly interdisciplinary character, which means you will be introduced to the broad range of cutting-edge methods by which scholars are currently researching the cultures of these periods. You will be encouraged, for instance, to move freely between texts, material artifacts, and visual art and to think about the ways in which unpublished manuscript evidence can help us to understand the priorities of medieval and early-modern readers. The course not only encourages you to read widely across the boundary between 'medieval' and 'Renaissance' cultures, but also to interrogate that boundary itself, to understand its historical and conceptual origins and to reflect on the many ways it continues to shape modern scholarly understandings of both periods. And by enabling you to work closely with local archival sources, the MA will leave you with a strong understanding of the way in which global narratives, like the rise of 'humanism' or the 'early-modern', shaped the rich literary and intellectual culture of Norwich itself.
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Degree Subject UK BA (Hons) 2.1 or equivalent Special Entry Requirements Sample of work - see belowStudents for whom English is a Foreign languageWe welcome applications from students whose first language is not English. To ensure such students benefit from postgraduate study, we require evidence of proficiency in English. Our usual entry requirements are as follows:IELTS: 7.0 (minimum 6.0 in each section and 7.0 in writing)PTE (Pearson): 68 (minimum 55 in each section and 68 in writing)Test dates should be within two years of the course start date .Other...
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- English
- Art
- Global
- University
- Part Time
- Modern Literature
Course programme
Year 1
Compulsory Study (40 credits)
- MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE HUMANISMS: FROM CHAUCER TO SURREY
- THE NORTHERN RENAISSANCE, 1500-1620
Year 2
Compulsory Study (140 credits)
- CONCEPTUALIZING THE MEDIEVAL AND THE RENAISSANCE
- EAST ANGLIAN LITERATURE
- ENGLISH LITERATURE DISSERTATION
- RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGY TRAINING SEMINAR
MA Medieval and Early Modern Textual Cultures 1381 - 1688 (Part time)