Study Details: MA 1 year full-time,
2 years part-time
Cultivate a wide-ranging and cross-disciplinary perspective on this exciting period.
Through seminars and workshops with leading academics, you’ll develop methodical research and archival skills to complement your specialist knowledge in this fascinating field, from visual and material culture to the history of religion, politics and political philosophy via music and the history of space/performance.
You’ll become part of the lively community of the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (CREMS), interacting with peers from many different disciplines and bringing new perspectives to your work. Staff from eight departments come together to make CREMS the largest centre of its kind in the UK, and allows you a truly interdisciplinary experience.
As well as regular research seminars, students have their own postgraduate forum (Cabinet of Curiosities), which hosts socials, invited speakers, symposiums and film nights. By the time you graduate, you’ll have a rich expertise in your chosen field, superbly positioned to pursue PhD research or develop a career in the heritage and cultural sector.
2:2 or equivalent in a relevant subject.
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The research, analysis and presentation skills that you’ll gain from this course are applicable to a diverse set of careers, and will also leave you well-prepared to continue on to PhD study. Graduates of this course have gone on to work in a wide range of sectors, including journalism, heritage, research, education, law, libraries, museums and government.
Core modules
Approaches to Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Research Training
Option modules
You will study three option modules. Our option modules vary from year to year, depending upon the interests and availability of staff. In previous years, options have covered topics such as:
Archaeology
Domestic Historic Interiors
Issues in Cultural Heritage Conservation
English
Cosmopoetics: Renaissance Science and Poetry
Early Modern Theories of Everything
Greening the Renaissance. Theology, Science & the Natural World, 1600 - 1700
Healing, Harming, Feeling: Medical Hermeneutics in Early Modern Literature
Shakespeare
Why Read Literature?: Lessons from the Renaissance (and Beyond)
History
Becoming British? Cultures and Identities in the Early Modern Atlantic World
History from below stairs: domestic service in Britain and Ireland, 1650-1850
Persecution and Toleration in Early Modern Britain
Smell and the Past: Noses and Environments from the Rome to Virtual Reality
Topics in the History of Political Thought
Violence in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700
Women in Early Modern England: Gender, Print and Politics
History of Art
Fashion: Theories, Materials and Images (1540-1940)
The Domestic Interior in Italy c1400-1550
Medieval Studies
Saving the Sinners: The Medieval Church and the Laity
The options available to you will be confirmed after you begin your course. For further information please get in touch.
Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.
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