Medieval and Renaissance Studies MA

UCL (University College London)

This one-year MA offers technical training in deciphering manuscripts and handling artefacts while building advanced research skills. You’ll have access to some of London’s finest collections and get first-hand experience handling original documents and manuscripts. The programme lasts 12 months (full-time) / 24 months (part-time) to allow for intensive technical training, teaching in various optional modules and independent thesis research. Our degree is designed to encourage students to undertake interdisciplinary study to an very high degree. We offer a large number of course options across seven different departments and give students the flexibility to receive intensive tuition in small groups in two or three disciplines. We encourage our students to acquire comprehensive practical skills to investigate medieval and Renaissance sources first-hand. We offer a range of specialised skills sources for studying medieval manuscripts and documents, early modern manuscripts and printed books. It is also possible to take modules oriented towards curation and librarianship of medieval and early modern sources. Our medieval and manuscripts provision is second to none in facilitating a quick transition to professional-level manuscript research. Many of our alumni have published their first research papers based on their manuscript coursework completed as part of our MA. Our language tuition is also wide-ranging and comprehensive. For beginners in Latin, the contact time is also unusually high. Intermediate and Advanced Latin and training in European medieval and modern languages are also available on our programme. The programme will be particularly attractive to students with research ambitions who have strong undergraduate qualifications and are considering doctoral research. The intensive linguistic and manuscript training is intended to increase students' chances of securing places on and excelling in good doctoral programmes. This MA is also particularly suited to students wishing to extend their knowledge of a wide range of medieval and renaissance topics and approaches.