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Master of Arts (Honours) Medieval History


MA (Hons) Medieval History: 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.


MA (Hons) Medieval History: Second year
Code Module name Credits
* Medieval 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.


MA (Hons) Medieval History: Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 120 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 Medieval Heraldic Studies 30
ME3016 Ireland in the Later Middle Ages: Nations and Conflicts 30
Conflict and cooperation: church and monarchy in Britain, 1066-1307 30
ME3101 Britons and Saxons 30
ME3102 Gildas and the Ruin of Britain c. 367 - 570 30
ME3103 Medieval 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
The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
The Medieval 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 Medieval 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 Medieval Armenia c. 500 - 750 30
ME3231 Medieval Apocalyptic Traditions 400 - 1200 30
Queens and Queenship in Early Medieval Europe 30
ME3233 Power and Identity after Rome 500 - 700 30
ME3234 Empires and Rebellions: The World of Adam of Bremen 30
ME3235 Medieval Political Thought 30
Soldiers and Saints in Late Roman Gaul 30
Legal Cultures in Late Antiquity 30
ME3238 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
ME3304 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
ME3308 Adomnan and his World: Scotland and Ireland in the Dark Ages 30
Medieval 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ 30
ME3311 Bannockburn: War and National Identity in Late Medieval 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
Justifying Medieval 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
ME3602 The Crusades viewed from the other side: Muslim perspectives 30
Eastern Approaches: Early Medieval Armenia c. 500 - 750 30
ME3609 The Mongols and the West 30
ME3610 The Ottoman Empire from Medieval Anatolia to S³leyman the Magnificent 30
The Eastern Roman Empire in the Reign of Justinian 527 - 565 30
ME3612 Cataclysm and Consolidation: the Reconfiguration of the Middle East in the Seventh Century 30
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
Missionaries, Assassins and State-builders: Militant Shiæism in the Medieval Muslim World 30
The Mamluks And The Mamluk Sultanate 30
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
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

A student may, with the permission of the Chair of the Degree Committee, substitute 30 credits in Third or Fourth Year for 3000-level or 4000-level credits in another School.

Not more than 120 Honours credits may be chosen from modules taught by any one member of staff and not more than 150 Honours credits may be chosen from modules in British History.


MA (Hons) Medieval History: Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
( View list 30 credits from Module List: HI4999, HI4997 OR
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: HI4998, (ID4002 and HI4101) ) AND
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
View list 60 credits from Module List: ME4701 - ME4889 AND
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 Medieval 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
Conflict and Cohabitation: Northern Britain c. 550 - 750 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
ME4756 Historia Brittonum: Inventing the Past in Ninth-Century Wales 60
ME4803 The Fourth Crusade 60
ME4806 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
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
ME4856 From Byzantium to the Ottoman Empire 60
The Mongol Empire and the Islamic World 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 Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: ME3001 - ME3689, MO3026, MO3036, MO3037
ME3012 Heroic History: The Age of Beowulf 30
ME3015 Heralds, Heraldry and History: Late Medieval Heraldic Studies 30
ME3016 Ireland in the Later Middle Ages: Nations and Conflicts 30
Conflict and cooperation: church and monarchy in Britain, 1066-1307 30
ME3101 Britons and Saxons 30
ME3102 Gildas and the Ruin of Britain c. 367 - 570 30
ME3103 Medieval 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
The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
The Medieval 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 Medieval 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 Medieval Armenia c. 500 - 750 30
ME3231 Medieval Apocalyptic Traditions 400 - 1200 30
Queens and Queenship in Early Medieval Europe 30
ME3233 Power and Identity after Rome 500 - 700 30
ME3234 Empires and Rebellions: The World of Adam of Bremen 30
ME3235 Medieval Political Thought 30
Soldiers and Saints in Late Roman Gaul 30
Legal Cultures in Late Antiquity 30
ME3238 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
ME3304 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
ME3308 Adomnan and his World: Scotland and Ireland in the Dark Ages 30
Medieval 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ 30
ME3311 Bannockburn: War and National Identity in Late Medieval 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
Justifying Medieval 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
ME3602 The Crusades viewed from the other side: Muslim perspectives 30
Eastern Approaches: Early Medieval Armenia c. 500 - 750 30
ME3609 The Mongols and the West 30
ME3610 The Ottoman Empire from Medieval Anatolia to S³leyman the Magnificent 30
The Eastern Roman Empire in the Reign of Justinian 527 - 565 30
ME3612 Cataclysm and Consolidation: the Reconfiguration of the Middle East in the Seventh Century 30
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
Missionaries, Assassins and State-builders: Militant Shiæism in the Medieval Muslim World 30
The Mamluks And The Mamluk Sultanate 30
Art and Piety in Western Europe 1400 - 1750 30
MO3036 The Italian Renaissance 30
MO3037 Renaissance Information Technology and Print Culture 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

HI4998 can only be taken by students with permission from the Director of Teaching to take (ID4002 and HI4101).
HI4997 can only be taken by students with the permission of the Chair of the Degree.

A student may, with the permission of the Chair of the Degree Committee, substitute 30 credits in Third or Fourth Year for 3000-level or 4000-level credits in another School.

Not more than 120 Honours credits may be chosen from modules taught by any one member of staff and not more than Honours 150 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¶³ÊÓƵ School in the Learning Agreement (see ).