Medieval Studies

MA

Part Time, Full Time

| Admissions status: Open

STRUCTURE OVERVIEW

Core programme content

Making the Middle Ages and Skills for Medievalists;
Dissertation.

Indicative non-core content

Sample options:

Arthurian Tradition in Literature and History
The Body of the Medieval Friend
Books and Bodies
Byzantine Hagiography
Chivalric Romance in Germany
Christine de Pizan
Diversity and Alterity in Old French Travel Narratives
England and the Continent in the 9th century
English Royal Government
Three Faces of Women in the Galician-Portuguese Lyric
History of Medieval Women
Germanic Philology
Law and Society from Constantine to Charlemagne
Living in Byzantium
Magna Carta and Medieval Kingship
Maps and Journeys
Medieval Latin Literature
Medieval Occitan narrative
Medieval Sex, Gender & Culture
The Reign of Constantine I.

FORMAT AND ASSESSMENT

Taught core and optional modules assessed by coursework and/or examination plus a compulsory dissertation which accounts for 25 per cent of the total marks. The core modules are assessed by submitted essays or projects, and the specialist modules by written examination and/or essays. Each module counts for 25 per cent of the final marks. In addition, students present a dissertation on an agreed topic totalling 25 per cent of the final marks. Written papers are taken in the May examination period, essays are normally submitted in early May and the dissertation by 15 September.

MODULES

More information on typical programme modules.
NB it cannot be guaranteed that all modules are offered in any particular academic year.

Making The Middle Ages - Required

Module code: 7AAYM107
Credit level: 0
Credit value: 20
Semester: Semester 1 (autumn)
Teaching pattern: One two-hour weekly seminar
Assessment: coursework
1 x 4,000 word essay

This module introduces some of the major themes and genres of medieval culture. It is organised around the theme of cultural encounters, in order to emphasise the synthetic, international and translated elements of medieval culture. It is framed by opening and closing weeks which consider the encounter of the medieval and the modern. The body of the module addresses encounters – of cultures, languages, peoples, modes of representation, periods – in French, Spanish and English literatures, with particular attention to representations of time, space and language. We are delighted to be able to offer this module in collaboration with the British Museum. Textual analysis will be complemented with studies of two of our major themes, love culture and the medieval synthesis of classical and Christian cultures, using visual and material culture.

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/english/modules/2011-12/level7/7aaym107.aspx

KEY FACTS

Programme leader/s

Dr Sarah Salih, Programme Convenor, Department of English Language & Literature

Awarding institution

King's College London

Credit value (UK/ECTS equivalent)

UK 180/ECTS 90

Duration

One year FT, two years PT, September to September.

Location

Strand Campus.