MA Medieval History
Entry requirements
A level: AAA, including A in History. IB: 38 (HL 6,6,6), including HL6 in History.
About this course
MA (Honours) in Medieval History, a history degree centred on the study of historical developments across medieval Europe and the Middle East within the Hebrew and Jewish Studies and History subject area. The first year covers the foundations through The Fall of Rome and the Origins of Europe (400-1000) and The Kingdom of the Scots, c.900-1707. The second year examines continental Western Europe alongside methodological foundations through Medieval Europe (11th - 15th c.), History as a Discipline: Development and Key Concepts, Introduction to Middle Eastern History, Scotland, Britain and Empire (c. 1700 - 2000), and Narratives of antiquity. Optional study and later stages allow students to focus on specific themes such as Death and the Afterlife in Later Medieval Europe, Holy Lives in Late Antiquity, Queens and Queenship in Early Medieval Europe, Sex and Gender in Medieval Europe, and The Mamluks and the Mamluk Sultanate.
Modules
- Death and the Afterlife in Later Medieval Europe
- Holy Lives in Late Antiquity
- Queens and Queenship in Early Medieval Europe
- Sex and Gender in Medieval Europe
- The Mamluks and the Mamluk Sultanate
- The Fall of Rome and the Origins of Europe (400-1000) : Examines how political, cultural and social life changed in the Byzantine, British and 'barbarian' worlds in response to major upheavals
- The Kingdom of the Scots, c.900-1707 : Explores Scotland's long history as an independent kingdom between the tenth and the early eighteenth century. It places particular emphasis on the use of museum collections and built heritage as historical evidence
- Medieval Europe (11th - 15th c.) : examines key themes that helped to shape continental Western Europe from the aftermath of the Carolingian Empire and beginning of the Crusades to the Black Death and the Hundred Years War
- History as a Discipline: Development and Key Concepts : provides an introduction to key theoretical and methodological approaches which have characterised the emergence of history as a discipline since medieval times
- Introduction to Middle Eastern History : provides an introduction to Middle Eastern history from the dramatic reconfiguration of the Middle East in late antiquity to its contested and contentious recent past
- Scotland, Britain and Empire (c. 1700 - 2000) : provides an introduction to how and why the British nation state evolved from the separate kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland and how and why it has survived over the last three centuries
- Narratives of antiquity : examines influential narratives from the ancient world and their reinterpretations in later periods, from the nineteenth century to the present day, and how they continue to shape the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves for better or for worse