Postgraduate Courses in Medieval Studies
Students will normally take 6-8 courses, depending on the number of credits assigned to each.
Full information on course content and assessment can be found in the Postgraduate Catalogue of Courses:
The following courses are normally available to students of Medieval Studies. They are dependent on staffing and may vary from year to year.
Basic Training Courses:
- Medieval Texts and Manuscripts
- Introduction to Historical Research
- Research Skills for Art Historians
- Approaches to Scandinavian Studies
Languages:
- Basic & Intermediate Latin For Postgraduates
- Old Norse Language and Literature
- Reading Medieval French
- Reading Modern Irish
- Reading Medieval Welsh
- Medieval Gaelic Language I & II
- Early Germanic Languages
- Runes and Place Names
- Palaeography
Thematic Courses:
- Romanesque Illuminate Manuscripts
- Trolls, Druids and the Walking Dead
- War and Society in Medieval Scotland
- Rituals of Death
- The Followers of Lady Poverty
- Canon Law and Lawyers
- Courtly Love in Medieval French Literature
- Literature of the Crusades
- Viking Religion
Courses can also be chosen from other programmes where relevant, and students can choose a course from outside the field in consultation with the Programme Coordinator.