Medieval Studies

King’s College London

Master

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

Overview
Our Medieval Studies MA draws on the expertise of a wide range of departments to enable you to study the period from a variety of perspectives. In addition to a huge choice of optional modules, we offer a module taught in partnership with the British Museum, drawing on its world-famous collection. This wide-ranging course allows you to build a study pathway that reflects your own particular interests and to develop a specialism exploring a theme or topic in your master’s dissertation.
The course information sheet is a printable version of the information on this web page, which you can download here.

Key benefits
Unrivalled location, gives students access to major libraries, institutes and societies for medievalists.
Flexible combination of core skills and training modules.
Unique range of specialist options, allowing interdisciplinary and cross-cultural study.

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Location

Start date

London
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Strand, WC2R 2LS

Start date

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Subjects

  • Latin

Course programme

Year 1 Required Modules

    You are required to take:

  • Visual and Verbal in Medieval Culture (20 credits)

  • Dissertation Medieval Studies (60 credits)

    If you are a part-time student, you will take Visual and Verbal in Medieval Culture in your first year, and your dissertation in your second. You will split your optional modules over two years. For example, you may take three optional modules in your first year and two in your second.

Optional Modules

You are required to take five modules (totalling 100 credits) from a list that typically includes:

  • Arthurian Tradition in Literature & History (20 credits)
  • Art as a Theological Medium (20 credits)
  • Books & Bodies (20 credits)
  • Byzantium and the West (20 credits)
  • Contemporary Medieval (20 credits)
  • Cyprus from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance (20 credits)
  • Devotional Use of Art in Christianity (20 credits)
  • Digital Approaches to Literature (20 credits)
  • Exile and Identity: Jews of Muslim and Christian Spain (20 credits)
  • Feudal Revolution (20 credits)
  • Food and Drink in Medieval England (20 credits)
  • Foundations & Records of English Royal Government 800-1300 (20 credits)
  • The History of Medieval Women (20 credits)
  • History of Script in Britain (20 credits)
  • The Idea of Beauty in Western Theology (40 credits)
  • Languages of Politics: Italy 1250-1500 (20 credits)
  • Latin for Graduates: Intermediate (20 credits)
  • Latin for Graduates: Beginners (20 credits)
  • Law And Society from Constantine to Charlemagne (20 credits)
  • Living in Byzantium I (20 credits)
  • Living in Byzantium II (20 credits)
  • Magna Carta & the Medieval Monarchy (20 credits)
  • Material Culture of the Book (20 credits)
  • Medieval Latin Literature (20 credits)
  • Medieval Music from the Sources (20 credits)
  • Medieval Philosophy (20 credits)
  • Medieval Slavery (20 credits)
  • Middle English Textual Cultures (20 credits)
  • Official and Unofficial Religion (20 credits)
  • One God, One Sea: Byzantium & Islam, 600-800 (20 credits)
  • Palaeography (20 credits)
  • Pre-modern Dialogues (20 credits)
  • The Troubadours & their Legacy (20 credits)

We review the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-do-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules may change.

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