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Master of Arts (Honours) English and Mediaeval History


English Joint element: First Year
Code Module name Credits
View list At least 40 credits from Module List: EN1003 - EN1004, CO1001 - CO1002 AND
Culture and Conflict: An Introduction to Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature 20
Explorers and Revolutionaries: Literature 1680 - 1830 20
The Nineteenth-Century Novel 20
Drama in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

MA Mediaeval History joint: First year
Code Module name Credits
The Fall of Rome and the Origins of Europe (400-1000) 20 AND
Scotland and the English Empire 1070 - 1500 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

Over the first two years, a further pass (other than ME2003) must be at 11 or better and at least 40 credits must be gained in modules other than those in the ranges AN, HI, ME, MH, MO and DI2006.


English Joint element: Second Year
Code Module name Credits
^ Medieval and Renaissance Texts 20 AND
^ Drama: Reading and Performance 20 AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass and have an average grade 11 or better in modules marked ^
MA Mediaeval History joint: Second year
Code Module name Credits
* Mediaeval Europe (1000-1400) 20 AND
* View list 20 credits from Module List: AN2003, HI2001, MH2002, MO2008 AND
Mediterranean Communities 20
History as a Discipline: Development and Key Concepts 20
Introduction to Middle Eastern History 20
Scotland, Britain and Empire (c. 1500 - 2000) 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Over the first two years, a further pass (other than ME2003) must be at 11 or better and at least 40 credits must be gained in modules other than those in the ranges AN, HI, ME, MH, MO and DI2006.

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass at grade 11 or better required in modules marked *

Entry to Honours

Students who meet the requirements specified above, and who meet all other programme requirements, will be given automatic entry into Honours programmes.

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MA Honours

The general requirements are 480 credits over a period of normally four years (and not more than five years) or part-time equivalent, of which the final two years form an approved Honours programme of 240 credits, of which 90 credits are at 4000 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 levels.


English Joint element: Third Year
Code Module name Credits
( View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN3111 - EN3140, EN4311 - EN4340 (Group A) OR
Beowulf 30
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 30
Unreformed Scotland: Older Scots Literature to 1560 30
EN4311 Old English Poetry 30
EN4312 Authorising English: Society, Gender and Religion in Late Mediaeval English Literature 30
EN4314 Old English Afterlives: Literary Anglo-Saxonism 30
Apocalyptic Literature in Early English 30
EN4316 Courtly Literature in Middle English 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN3141 - EN3160, EN4341 - EN4360 (Group B) OR
Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare 30
Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts 30
EN4341 Renaissance Sexualities: Rhetoric and the Body 1580 - 1660 30
Restoration Drama in Context 30
EN4343 Literature and Law in Early Modern England 30
EN4344 Early English Romance Comedy: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries 30
Hard Cases: Literary Complexity from Donne to Pope 30
The Early Tudors: Literature and Reformation 30
EN4347 Milton 30
Bodies and Selves in the Renaissance 30
EN4349 Renaissance Sonnets 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN3161 - EN3189, EN4361 - EN4389 (Group C) ) AND
The Development of the Novel to 1840 30
Revolution and Romanticism: Literature, History and Society (1789-1805) 30
The Younger Romantics: Poetry and Prose (1810 - 1830) 30
EN3164 Self and Society in the Victorian Novel 30
'Loose Baggy Monsters': The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Novel 30
Victorian Poetry's Voices 30
The Novels of Jane Austen in Context 30
EN4362 Mind, Body and Soul: Literature in the Enlightenment 30
EN4363 Romantic Writing and Women 30
EN4364 The Art of Victorian Poetry 30
Literature and Childhood in the Eighteenth Century 30
EN4366 Byron's Long Poems and Dramas 30
Romantic Gothic 30
EN4368 Read all about it! Victorian Literature and the Press 30
EN4369 Victorian Literature and Science 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: EN3000 - EN4999 (excluding EN4398 - EN4399, EN4794 - EN4797)
Beowulf 30
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 30
Unreformed Scotland: Older Scots Literature to 1560 30
Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare 30
Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts 30
The Development of the Novel to 1840 30
Revolution and Romanticism: Literature, History and Society (1789-1805) 30
The Younger Romantics: Poetry and Prose (1810 - 1830) 30
EN3164 Self and Society in the Victorian Novel 30
'Loose Baggy Monsters': The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Novel 30
Victorian Poetry's Voices 30
Literary Theory 30
Literature and Ecology 30
EN3206 Aspects of Modern Fiction 30
Twentieth-Century British and Irish Drama 30
EN3208 Scottish Verse 30
EN3209 Scottish Fiction 30
EN3210 Twentieth-Century American Drama 30
EN3211 Culture and Society in Modern Scotland 30
Modernist Literature: Making It New? 30
Postcolonial Literature and Theory 30
The Country and the City in Scottish Literature 30
Atomic Cultures: Anglophone Writing and the Global Cold War 30
Modern Experimental Poetry 30
Writing Poetry 30
EN3218 Material Texts: an Introduction to Book History 30
EN4311 Old English Poetry 30
EN4312 Authorising English: Society, Gender and Religion in Late Mediaeval English Literature 30
EN4314 Old English Afterlives: Literary Anglo-Saxonism 30
Apocalyptic Literature in Early English 30
EN4316 Courtly Literature in Middle English 30
EN4341 Renaissance Sexualities: Rhetoric and the Body 1580 - 1660 30
Restoration Drama in Context 30
EN4343 Literature and Law in Early Modern England 30
EN4344 Early English Romance Comedy: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries 30
Hard Cases: Literary Complexity from Donne to Pope 30
The Early Tudors: Literature and Reformation 30
EN4347 Milton 30
Bodies and Selves in the Renaissance 30
EN4349 Renaissance Sonnets 30
The Novels of Jane Austen in Context 30
EN4362 Mind, Body and Soul: Literature in the Enlightenment 30
EN4363 Romantic Writing and Women 30
EN4364 The Art of Victorian Poetry 30
Literature and Childhood in the Eighteenth Century 30
EN4366 Byron's Long Poems and Dramas 30
Romantic Gothic 30
EN4368 Read all about it! Victorian Literature and the Press 30
EN4369 Victorian Literature and Science 30
Speeches and Speechwriting: History, Theory and Practice 30
Mediaevalism 30
EN4404 Shakespeare and Film 30
Contemporary Poetry in Great Britain and Ireland 30
Contemporary British Fiction 30
EN4407 Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender and Genre 30
EN4408 Science Fiction 30
EN4409 Modern American Drama 30
EN4413 Reading the 1940s 30
EN4414 Thomas Hardy 30
T.S. Eliot 30
EN4416 Virginia Woolf 30
Writing Poetry and Prose 30
American Poetry since 1950 30
American Fiction: Self and Nation (1865 - 1939) 30
Writing Prose 30
EN4421 J R R Tolkien 30
Poetic Language 30
Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
Nationalists and Nomads: Contemporary World Literature 30
Celtic Modernisms 30
Civil Wars on Page and Screen 30
EN4427 The Shape of the Poem 30
EN4428 Imagining Ireland: Forging the Nation 30
Making Performance 30
Poetry and Cinema 30
EN4433 Black and Asian British Writing 30
Playwriting 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

"MA English (Joint Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:
30 credits from one of:
Group A (EN3111 - EN3140, EN4311 - EN4340) OR
Group B (EN3141 - EN3160, EN4341 - EN4360) OR
Group C (EN3161 - EN3189, EN4361 - EN4389);
60 - 120 credits: EN3000 - EN4999, (EN4398 and ID4002 - in Fourth Year only).
30 of these credits may, with the permission of both Heads of School, be substituted for level 3000 or 4000 level credits in another School;
"

In total, 240 credits must be achieved at 3000 and 4000 level, including at least 90 credits at 4000 level.

MA Mediaeval History joint: Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: ME3001 - ME3689, MO3026, MO3036, MO3037, MO3043 - MO3044, MO3080 - MO3081
ME3012 Heroic History: The Age of Beowulf 30
ME3015 Heralds, Heraldry and History: Late Mediaeval Heraldic Studies 30
ME3016 Ireland in the Later Middle Ages: Nations and Conflicts 30
ME3101 Britons and Saxons 30
ME3102 Gildas and the Ruin of Britain c. 367 - 570 30
ME3103 Mediaeval Rome c. 590 - c. 1300 30
ME3104 The Vikings: Invasion, Settlement and Conversion c. 750 - 1200 30
Archaeological Methods 30
ME3140 Roman and Native in North Britain 30
ME3141 Archaeological Evidence and the Historian 30
ME3142 The Castle in Mediaeval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
The Mediaeval Castle 30
The Imperial City: Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople 30
ME3164 Archaeology of Late Antiquity and the Early Islamic Middle East: Architecture and Representations of Power (C4th-C12th) 30
ME3202 Byzantium and the West 800 - 1118 30
ME3203 The Crusades 30
ME3204 The Princess Historian: Anna Comnena 30
Inclusion and Exclusion in the Middle Ages 30
ME3212 Men, Women and Family in the Middle Ages 30
Italian City States: from Communes to Signorie c. 1000- c. 1350 30
ME3216 Mediaeval Rome c590 - c1300 30
ME3218 Imperial and Christian Constantinople 30
ME3222 Inca Civilisation and its Destruction 30
The Rise and Fall of the Carolingian Empire, c.750 - 900 30
ME3224 Legend and History in Sub-Roman Britain 30
ME3228 The Near East in the Age of Justinian and Muhammad c.527-700 30
ME3229 Eastern Approaches: Early Mediaeval Armenia c. 500 - 750 30
Mediaeval Apocalyptic Traditions 400 - 1200 30
Queens and Queenship in Early Mediaeval Europe 30
ME3233 Power and Identity after Rome 500 - 700 30
ME3234 Empires and Rebellions: The World of Adam of Bremen 30
ME3235 Mediaeval Political Thought 30
ME3236 Soldiers and Saints in Late Roman Gaul 30
Legal Cultures in Late Antiquity 30
Holy Lives in Late Antiquity 30
ME3239 Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Early Medieval West 30
ME3301 The End of the Middle Ages? Scotland and England in the Fifteenth Century 30
ME3302 Survival and Stability: the Foundations of the Stewart Dynasty, 1371-1460 30
ME3303 The Renaissance in Scotland 1450 - 1550 30
Age of Conquest: Edward I - Scotland and Wales (1239 - 1307) 30
ME3305 Normans, Natives and Norsemen: Scotland c.1050 to 1250 30
ME3306 Pictavia to Albania: Scotland in the Viking Age 30
ME3307 Macbeth and his World: Rulers and Rulership in Eleventh Century North Britain 30
Adomnan and his World: Scotland and Ireland in the Dark Ages 30
Mediaeval 91¹û¶³ÊÓÆµ 30
ME3311 Bannockburn: War and National Identity in Late Mediaeval Europe 30
ME3312 Kings and Rebels: Realms and Borderlands in the British Isles 1350-1420 30
Early Irish Society (c. 600-800) 30
Times of trouble: civil conflicts in the later fifteenth century 30
ME3407 Courtroom Dramas: Literature, Law and Lordship 30
ME3408 The Black Death and the Peasants' Revolt in England 30
ME3417 The Middle Ages and the Movies 30
Rich and Poor in the Later Middle Ages 30
ME3423 Justifying Mediaeval Warfare 30
The Age of Revolt (1250 - 1450) 30
Women and Gender in the Later Middle Ages 30
Nature and the Occult in the Late Middle Ages 30
The Crusades viewed from the other side: Muslim perspectives 30
Eastern Approaches: Early Mediaeval Armenia c. 500 - 750 30
ME3609 The Mongols and the West 30
ME3610 The Ottoman Empire from Mediaeval Anatolia to S³leyman the Magnificent 30
ME3611 The Eastern Roman Empire in the Reign of Justinian 527 - 565 30
Cataclysm and Consolidation: the Reconfiguration of the Middle East in the Seventh Century 30
ME3613 Arabs, Persians and Turks in the Early Islamic East in the Age of the Caliphates (600 - 1200) 30
ME3614 The Eastern Roman World in the Late Middle Ages 30
ME3616 Missionaries, Assassins and State-builders: Militant Shiæism in the Mediaeval Muslim World 30
The Mamluks And The Mamluk Sultanate 30
MO3026 Art and Piety in Western Europe 1400 - 1750 30
MO3036 The Italian Renaissance 30
MO3037 Renaissance Information Technology and Print Culture 30
Early Modern Rome (1300 - 1667) 30
Topics in Renaissance Venice 30
MO3080 The Iranian World from the Timurids to the Safavids (1370 - 1722) 30
The Ottoman Empire 1300 - 1700 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules taught by any one member of staff and not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules in British History


English Joint element: Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
( View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN3111 - EN3140, EN4311 - EN4340 (Group A) OR
Beowulf 30
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 30
Unreformed Scotland: Older Scots Literature to 1560 30
EN4311 Old English Poetry 30
EN4312 Authorising English: Society, Gender and Religion in Late Mediaeval English Literature 30
EN4314 Old English Afterlives: Literary Anglo-Saxonism 30
Apocalyptic Literature in Early English 30
EN4316 Courtly Literature in Middle English 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN3141 - EN3160, EN4341 - EN4360 (Group B) OR
Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare 30
Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts 30
EN4341 Renaissance Sexualities: Rhetoric and the Body 1580 - 1660 30
Restoration Drama in Context 30
EN4343 Literature and Law in Early Modern England 30
EN4344 Early English Romance Comedy: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries 30
Hard Cases: Literary Complexity from Donne to Pope 30
The Early Tudors: Literature and Reformation 30
EN4347 Milton 30
Bodies and Selves in the Renaissance 30
EN4349 Renaissance Sonnets 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN3161 - EN3189, EN4361 - EN4389 (Group C) ) AND
The Development of the Novel to 1840 30
Revolution and Romanticism: Literature, History and Society (1789-1805) 30
The Younger Romantics: Poetry and Prose (1810 - 1830) 30
EN3164 Self and Society in the Victorian Novel 30
'Loose Baggy Monsters': The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Novel 30
Victorian Poetry's Voices 30
The Novels of Jane Austen in Context 30
EN4362 Mind, Body and Soul: Literature in the Enlightenment 30
EN4363 Romantic Writing and Women 30
EN4364 The Art of Victorian Poetry 30
Literature and Childhood in the Eighteenth Century 30
EN4366 Byron's Long Poems and Dramas 30
Romantic Gothic 30
EN4368 Read all about it! Victorian Literature and the Press 30
EN4369 Victorian Literature and Science 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
( View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: EN3000 - EN4999 (excluding EN4398) AND
Beowulf 30
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 30
Unreformed Scotland: Older Scots Literature to 1560 30
Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare 30
Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts 30
The Development of the Novel to 1840 30
Revolution and Romanticism: Literature, History and Society (1789-1805) 30
The Younger Romantics: Poetry and Prose (1810 - 1830) 30
EN3164 Self and Society in the Victorian Novel 30
'Loose Baggy Monsters': The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Novel 30
Victorian Poetry's Voices 30
Literary Theory 30
Literature and Ecology 30
EN3206 Aspects of Modern Fiction 30
Twentieth-Century British and Irish Drama 30
EN3208 Scottish Verse 30
EN3209 Scottish Fiction 30
EN3210 Twentieth-Century American Drama 30
EN3211 Culture and Society in Modern Scotland 30
Modernist Literature: Making It New? 30
Postcolonial Literature and Theory 30
The Country and the City in Scottish Literature 30
Atomic Cultures: Anglophone Writing and the Global Cold War 30
Modern Experimental Poetry 30
Writing Poetry 30
EN3218 Material Texts: an Introduction to Book History 30
Crime and Passion in Popular Culture 1: To 1900 30
Crime and Passion in Popular Culture 2: Since 1900 30
EN4311 Old English Poetry 30
EN4312 Authorising English: Society, Gender and Religion in Late Mediaeval English Literature 30
EN4314 Old English Afterlives: Literary Anglo-Saxonism 30
Apocalyptic Literature in Early English 30
EN4316 Courtly Literature in Middle English 30
EN4341 Renaissance Sexualities: Rhetoric and the Body 1580 - 1660 30
Restoration Drama in Context 30
EN4343 Literature and Law in Early Modern England 30
EN4344 Early English Romance Comedy: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries 30
Hard Cases: Literary Complexity from Donne to Pope 30
The Early Tudors: Literature and Reformation 30
EN4347 Milton 30
Bodies and Selves in the Renaissance 30
EN4349 Renaissance Sonnets 30
The Novels of Jane Austen in Context 30
EN4362 Mind, Body and Soul: Literature in the Enlightenment 30
EN4363 Romantic Writing and Women 30
EN4364 The Art of Victorian Poetry 30
Literature and Childhood in the Eighteenth Century 30
EN4366 Byron's Long Poems and Dramas 30
Romantic Gothic 30
EN4368 Read all about it! Victorian Literature and the Press 30
EN4369 Victorian Literature and Science 30
Dissertation in English 30
Speeches and Speechwriting: History, Theory and Practice 30
Mediaevalism 30
EN4404 Shakespeare and Film 30
Contemporary Poetry in Great Britain and Ireland 30
Contemporary British Fiction 30
EN4407 Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender and Genre 30
EN4408 Science Fiction 30
EN4409 Modern American Drama 30
EN4413 Reading the 1940s 30
EN4414 Thomas Hardy 30
T.S. Eliot 30
EN4416 Virginia Woolf 30
Writing Poetry and Prose 30
American Poetry since 1950 30
American Fiction: Self and Nation (1865 - 1939) 30
Writing Prose 30
EN4421 J R R Tolkien 30
Poetic Language 30
Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
Nationalists and Nomads: Contemporary World Literature 30
Celtic Modernisms 30
Civil Wars on Page and Screen 30
EN4427 The Shape of the Poem 30
EN4428 Imagining Ireland: Forging the Nation 30
Making Performance 30
Poetry and Cinema 30
EN4433 Black and Asian British Writing 30
Playwriting 30
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN4398, ID4002 )
Special Topic in English 15
Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

"MA English (Joint Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:
30 credits from one of:
Group A (EN3111 - EN3140, EN4311 - EN4340) OR
Group B (EN3141 - EN3160, EN4341 - EN4360) OR
Group C (EN3161 - EN3189, EN4361 - EN4389);
60 - 120 credits: EN3000 - EN4999, (EN4398 and ID4002 - in Fourth Year only).
30 of these credits may, with the permission of both Heads of School, be substituted for level 3000 or 4000 level credits in another School;
"

In total, 240 credits must be achieved at 3000 and 4000 level, including at least 90 credits at 4000 level.

MA Mediaeval History joint: Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: ME4701 - ME4889 OR
ME4701 Henry I: Perceptions and Practice of Kingship in Anglo Norman England 60
ME4707 Law and Society in England c. 870 - 1220 60
ME4709 Past and Present in Mediaeval Wales 60
ME4710 England and France at War in the Fourteenth Century 60
'A Century of Iron': Rulers, Warriors and Scholars in Tenth-Century England and Germany 60
ME4713 The Cult of Saints 60
The Wars of the Bruces: Kings, Nobles and Commumities in the British Isles (1306 - 1346) 60
ME4753 Chivalry and Kingship: Scotland in the Late Middle Ages 60
ME4754 Conquest and Community: The British Isles in the Age of Edward I (1239 - 1307) 60
ME4755 Norway in Saga Times 60
Historia Brittonum: Inventing the Past in Ninth-Century Wales 60
ME4803 The Fourth Crusade 60
The Age of Charlemagne c. 750 - 830 60
The Early Mendicants: Francis, Clare and Dominic (c. 1180 - c. 1270) 60
ME4812 From Leo VI to Basil II: Byzantium in the Tenth Century 60
ME4813 The Merovingian World 60
ME4814 Iran from the Sasanids to the Samanids (224-1003) 60
France from Philip Augustus to Philip the Fair, c.1180-1315 60
ME4852 From Leo VI to Basil II: Byzantium in the Tenth Century 60
ME4854 Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople (Istanbul) 60
Crusaders, Mongols and Mamluks: West and East in the Mid-Thirteenth Century 60
From Byzantium to the Ottoman Empire 60
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
( View list 30 credits from Module List: HI4999, HI4997 AND
Honours Dissertation in History 30
Recording the Past 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list 30 credits from Module List: ME3001 - ME3689, MO3026, MO3036, MO3037, MO3043 - MO3044, MO3080 - MO3081 ) OR
ME3012 Heroic History: The Age of Beowulf 30
ME3015 Heralds, Heraldry and History: Late Mediaeval Heraldic Studies 30
ME3016 Ireland in the Later Middle Ages: Nations and Conflicts 30
ME3101 Britons and Saxons 30
ME3102 Gildas and the Ruin of Britain c. 367 - 570 30
ME3103 Mediaeval Rome c. 590 - c. 1300 30
ME3104 The Vikings: Invasion, Settlement and Conversion c. 750 - 1200 30
Archaeological Methods 30
ME3140 Roman and Native in North Britain 30
ME3141 Archaeological Evidence and the Historian 30
ME3142 The Castle in Mediaeval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
The Mediaeval Castle 30
The Imperial City: Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople 30
ME3164 Archaeology of Late Antiquity and the Early Islamic Middle East: Architecture and Representations of Power (C4th-C12th) 30
ME3202 Byzantium and the West 800 - 1118 30
ME3203 The Crusades 30
ME3204 The Princess Historian: Anna Comnena 30
Inclusion and Exclusion in the Middle Ages 30
ME3212 Men, Women and Family in the Middle Ages 30
Italian City States: from Communes to Signorie c. 1000- c. 1350 30
ME3216 Mediaeval Rome c590 - c1300 30
ME3218 Imperial and Christian Constantinople 30
ME3222 Inca Civilisation and its Destruction 30
The Rise and Fall of the Carolingian Empire, c.750 - 900 30
ME3224 Legend and History in Sub-Roman Britain 30
ME3228 The Near East in the Age of Justinian and Muhammad c.527-700 30
ME3229 Eastern Approaches: Early Mediaeval Armenia c. 500 - 750 30
Mediaeval Apocalyptic Traditions 400 - 1200 30
Queens and Queenship in Early Mediaeval Europe 30
ME3233 Power and Identity after Rome 500 - 700 30
ME3234 Empires and Rebellions: The World of Adam of Bremen 30
ME3235 Mediaeval Political Thought 30
ME3236 Soldiers and Saints in Late Roman Gaul 30
Legal Cultures in Late Antiquity 30
Holy Lives in Late Antiquity 30
ME3239 Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Early Medieval West 30
ME3301 The End of the Middle Ages? Scotland and England in the Fifteenth Century 30
ME3302 Survival and Stability: the Foundations of the Stewart Dynasty, 1371-1460 30
ME3303 The Renaissance in Scotland 1450 - 1550 30
Age of Conquest: Edward I - Scotland and Wales (1239 - 1307) 30
ME3305 Normans, Natives and Norsemen: Scotland c.1050 to 1250 30
ME3306 Pictavia to Albania: Scotland in the Viking Age 30
ME3307 Macbeth and his World: Rulers and Rulership in Eleventh Century North Britain 30
Adomnan and his World: Scotland and Ireland in the Dark Ages 30
Mediaeval 91¹û¶³ÊÓÆµ 30
ME3311 Bannockburn: War and National Identity in Late Mediaeval Europe 30
ME3312 Kings and Rebels: Realms and Borderlands in the British Isles 1350-1420 30
Early Irish Society (c. 600-800) 30
Times of trouble: civil conflicts in the later fifteenth century 30
ME3407 Courtroom Dramas: Literature, Law and Lordship 30
ME3408 The Black Death and the Peasants' Revolt in England 30
ME3417 The Middle Ages and the Movies 30
Rich and Poor in the Later Middle Ages 30
ME3423 Justifying Mediaeval Warfare 30
The Age of Revolt (1250 - 1450) 30
Women and Gender in the Later Middle Ages 30
Nature and the Occult in the Late Middle Ages 30
The Crusades viewed from the other side: Muslim perspectives 30
Eastern Approaches: Early Mediaeval Armenia c. 500 - 750 30
ME3609 The Mongols and the West 30
ME3610 The Ottoman Empire from Mediaeval Anatolia to S³leyman the Magnificent 30
ME3611 The Eastern Roman Empire in the Reign of Justinian 527 - 565 30
Cataclysm and Consolidation: the Reconfiguration of the Middle East in the Seventh Century 30
ME3613 Arabs, Persians and Turks in the Early Islamic East in the Age of the Caliphates (600 - 1200) 30
ME3614 The Eastern Roman World in the Late Middle Ages 30
ME3616 Missionaries, Assassins and State-builders: Militant Shiæism in the Mediaeval Muslim World 30
The Mamluks And The Mamluk Sultanate 30
MO3026 Art and Piety in Western Europe 1400 - 1750 30
MO3036 The Italian Renaissance 30
MO3037 Renaissance Information Technology and Print Culture 30
Early Modern Rome (1300 - 1667) 30
Topics in Renaissance Venice 30
MO3080 The Iranian World from the Timurids to the Safavids (1370 - 1722) 30
The Ottoman Empire 1300 - 1700 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list 60 credits from Module List: HI4998, (ID4002 and HI4101)
Honours Project in History 30
Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
Communication in History 15
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

HI4997 is only available to students with permission from the Chair of the Degree.
Access to ID4002 and HI4101 requires the permission of the Director of Teaching.
HI4998 can replace HI4999 if the student has the permission to take (ID4002 and HI4101).

Not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules taught by any one member of staff and not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules in British History


Study abroad

In the case of students who spend part of the Honours programme on a recognised Study Abroad scheme, the Programme Requirements will be amended to take into account overseas courses which are approved by the relevant 91¹û¶³ÊÓÆµ School in the Learning Agreement (see ).