This unit enables students to pursue specialist studies in an aspect of the medieval or early modern periods (500–1800). A variety of thematic foci, genres and contexts that were significant in either of these periods is chosen from time to time, depending on staff availability. However, the unit always offers the opportunity for intensive historicist analysis of medieval and/or early modern sources and materials, informed by relevant critical and theoretical understandings of the topic in question, and inculcating appropriate methodologies and scholarly protocols. -- Course Website
