Graduate Studies
MPhil in European Literature & Culture
Medieval and Early Modern Pathway
The pathway is aimed at students registered in the MPhil in European Literature and Culture who wish to specialize in subjects linked to Medieval and/or Early Modern studies. The course offers tailored training to students working in this field, providing theoretical and practical tools to read, understand and work on pre-modern sources. The pathway is a flexible structure that can be adjusted to particular needs and interests offering a wide range of approaches to a variety of texts and historical contexts. This course is particularly suited to students wishing to pursue their graduate studies further and work on a PhD in Medieval and/or Early Modern studies. Students interested will have to register to the pathway at the beginning of the academic year.
Pathway Structure
Core Course Lectures: Students will attend the Core Course Lectures of the EuroLit programme.
Core Course Seminars: Students must choose 2 seminars.
Students should study at least one of the following seminars, but if they wish they can also choose one of the other seminars offered in the EuroLit programme.
- Poetics and Rhetoric
- Paleography and editorial techniques
Modules: Students will choose 2 among the following modules:
- Europe and the Renaissance
- History of the Book, 1450-1650
- Identity and hybridity in Arthurian romance
- Heroes and Humans
- The alterity of medieval literature
- Dante: Medieval and Modern
- Women and writing in Italy, 1530-1650
- Golden Age literature and culture: The Baroque marvel
- Realities, concepts and representations of Wrongdoing in Spain, 13c to 20c
- The Culture of Pre-Petrine Russia
Assessment
Students will write 1 essay for the Core Course (1st term) on a specific topic related with one of the seminars followed. Essays will be 4,500 words long. In the case of the Paleography and editorial techniques seminar, students will be assessed with a 4,500-word essay, of which around 1,500 will be the text edited or transcribed and around 3,000 the introductory study, footnotes and-or critical apparatus.
In the second term, students will write 2 essays based on material related to the modules followed, and a 15,000-word thesis in the third term.
Teaching Staff
Department of French
Professor Bill Burgwinkle
Dr Mark Darlow
Dr Emma Gilby
Dr Miranda Griffin
Dr Nicholas Hammond
Professor Sylvia Huot
Dr John Leigh
Dr Jenny Mander
Professor Michael Moriarty
Dr Alexander Roose
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Dr Louise Haywood
Dr Rodrigo Cacho
Dr Elizabeth Drayson
Department of German and Dutch
Dr Mark Chinca
Dr Elsa Strietman
Dr Joachim Whaley
Dr Charlotte Woodford
Professor Christopher Young
Department of Italian
Dr Abigail Brundin
Dr Helena Sanson
Dr Heather Webb
Department of Slavonic Studies
Prof Simon Franklin
Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Professor Wendy Bennett
Neo-Latin
Dr Andrew Taylor
Dr Paul White
Paleography and the History of the Book
Dr Anne Cobby
Dr David McKitterick
Dr Nicola Morato
Mr Ed Potten
For more information on the Pathway, please contact Dr Rodrigo Cacho
