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Course options

The MA comprises courses totalling 180 credits. Students must take at least 30 credits of language-based courses, indicated by an asterisk below. Most courses run in 30-credit versions taught over two terms, Autumn and Spring. All courses below are 15, 30 or 45 credits.

Courses expected to be available are listed below. Students especially interested in particular courses should consult the MARS Degree Tutor. The list of available courses is finalized in July.

Non-MARS students taking MDVL courses:

1. UCL Students outside of the MARS degree should enrol on portico at the start of term.
2. Non-UCL University of London students are welcome to take MDVL courses but must contact the MARS Administrator to reserve a space on their chosen course.

Latin and modern scholarly languages

• Academic Reading in a European Language (French, German or Italian)*
• CLASGL01/MDVLGL04Medieval and Renaissance Latin (Beginners)*(30/45 credits)
  

• MDVLGL05/06Medieval and Renaissance Latin (Intermediate)*(30/45 credits)
• Medieval Latin Literature (Advanced) * (30 credits)
• HEBRG045 Classical Hebrew* (30 credits)
• HEBRG083 Introduction to Syriac* (30 credits)
  

Medieval manuscripts

• MDVLG004/G005 Medieval Manuscripts and Documents (30/45 credits)
• MDVLGE06 The Medieval English Book *(45 credits. 30 or 15 credits possible)

Scandinavia

• SCANG013 Introduction to Old Norse*
  
• SCANGM08 Medieval Icelandic Palaeography (30 credits)
  
• SCANGM06 Advanced Old Icelandic Literature (30 credits)
  
• SCANGM05 Written Sources for the Viking Age (30 credits)
  

Medieval and Renaissance vernaculars

• MDVLGF06 Middle French*(15 credits)
  
• MDVLGF01 Old French* (15 credits)
  
• Middle High German* (30 credits)
  
• ITALG021 Medieval and Renaissance Italian* (15 credits)
  
• MDVLGE08 Old English *(15 credits)
  
• MDVLGE01 Middle English*(15 credits)
  

Medieval History

• HISTGH12/HISTGH12A Identity and Power in Medieval Europe, AD 500-1300 (30 or 15 credits)

• MDVLGH10 The Medieval Papacy (30 or 15 credits)
• MDVLGH08/MDVLGH08A Europe's Long Thirteenth Century: Governments, Conflicts and the Cultivation of Christendom (30 or 15 credits, not running 2013/14)
  
• MDVLGH13 Animals and the Medieval Imagination (15 credits; not running in 2013/14)
  
• ARCLG004 Medieval Archaeology: Selected Topics and Current Problems (not running 2012/13)
• HISTG050 From Renaissance to Republic: The Netherlands: 1555-1609 (15 credits)

• SEESGH72 RUSSIAN MONARCHY: COURT RITUAL AND POLITICAL IDEAS 1498-1917

Jewish history

• HEBRG106 Culture of Sephardic Jewry (15 credits)
• HEBRG199 Ancient Jewish Magic (15 credits)
• HEBRG146 The Jewish Mystical Tradition (15 credits)

• Conflict and Cohesion: Jews and Christians in Medieval Literature (not running 2013/14)

• Transformations of Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe (not running 2013/14)
  
• Ways of Reading: Jewish Bible Interpretation in the Middle Ages (not running 2013/14)

• Kisses of His Mouth: The Song of Songs in Medieval Judaism and Christianity (not running 2013/14)

Medieval vernacular literatures

• MDVLG003 Comparative Medieval Literature (30 credits)

• CLASGL10A Early Modern Latin Literature 1
  

• CLASGL10B Early Modern Latin Literature 2

• The Rise of Romance, 1150-1230 (not running 2013/14) (30 credits)
  
• GERMG008 Parzival (30 credits)
  
• ITALG003 Dante, Divina Commedia
• MDVLGE07 Anglo-Saxon Court Culture (30 credits)

• MDVLGE09 English and Englishness in the Middle Ages: the Politics of the Vernacular (30/45 credits not running 2013/14)
  

• MDVLGE14 Travel and Writing in the Middle Ages (30 credits)

Renaissance

• ITALG006 Medieval and Renaissance Texts: Resources and Research Techniques (30 credits)
  
• ITALG021 Medieval and Renaissance Italian (15 credits)
  
• ITALG007 Petrarch, Rime (not running 2013/14)

• 06HIG002 Rhetoric and dialectic (Warburg Institute) (15 credits)

• HISTG835/HISTG835A/HISTG835B Political Thought in Renaissance Europe (30 or 15 credits, not running 13/14)
• ITALG009 Marsilio Ficino, De amore
  
• ITALG015 Giordano Bruno

• SPANG013A Sex and the Body in Early Modern Europe (15/30 credits)
• The Italian Book, 1465–1600 (not running 13/14)
  
• HISTG024 From Renaissance to Republic: The Netherlands c.1555-1609 (15 credits)
  

Art history (all 30 credits)

• Theories of Authorship in Early Modern Italian Art (not running in 2013/14)
• HARTG012 Values of Design in the Italian Renaissance  (not running in 2013/14)

• Cannibalism and the Early Modern Age
  

• Vision and Body in the Early Modern Cabinet of Curiosities (not running in 2013/14)

• Early Modern Horror
  
• Art and Culture in the Netherlands (1578-1672) (not running in 2013/14)

• Human and Nonhuman in Medieval Art
  

Students may also take courses offered on King's College London MA in Medieval History, subject to the approval of the MARS Degree Tutor and the course tutor or tutors.