BA Medieval and Early Modern History
Entry requirements
UCAS tariff: 104 tariff points from A levels or combination with Extended Project / BTEC / Cambridge Technical. A level: BCC BTEC/Cambridge Technical: DMM IB: 28 points
About this course
BA (Hons) in History. Core topics include Historical Research, Research Methods, Fieldwork, and Project Management. Students complete a 10,500-word dissertation on a self-chosen topic. The course spans medieval to early modern European history, and includes a work placement module exploring the application of historical study in professional settings.
Modules
- Making History
- Witchcraft and Magic in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800
- The Renaissance and Reformation World, 1300-1650
- The Black Death and Beyond, 1340s-1660s
- The Tudors 1485 – 1603
- Torture to Terror: Progress and Repression in the European World, 1492-1792
- A Social History of Early Modern England: 1550-1750
- Approaches to Research
- Art & Knowledge in Europe: From Early Renaissance to Baroque: 1250-1650
- Culture and Civilisation in Late Medieval England: C.1200-1550
- Enlightenment Europe: 1688-1789
- Fairy Tales: Early Modern to Postmodern
- Heritage in Practice: Work Placements for History Students
- Kingdom of Heaven: Crusading and the Holy Land: 1095-1291
- Renaissance to Restoration
- Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries
- Stuart England 1603-88: Rebellion, Restoration and Revolution
- Women and Gender: 1000-1600
- Dissertation
- Gothic, Romanticism and Women’s Writing: From Mary Wollstonecraft to Jane Austen
- Henry VIII and Court Culture 1509-1547: Faction, Faith and Fornication
- Kingship, Queenship and Power in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
- Louis XVI’s France: 1643-1715
- The Cultural History of Death
- Vice to Virtue? The Origins and Outcomes of the French Revolution: 1744-94