DPT: Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies (MSc) (Full-time) (PTMSCLATEA1F)

For this degree students take one compulsory course, 40 credits of skills courses, 60 credits of specialist option courses, and complete a dissertation. Normally, students will take a skills course and at least one specialist option course in each semester. Some variation may be permitted where appropriate in consultation with the Programme Director.

Compulsory courses

MSc Dissertation in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies

Approaches to the Long Late Antiquity

Must be taken during Full Year

Course options

Students must take a paired set of language courses.

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.

Arabic 1a for PG Credit

Arabic 1b for PG Credit

Elementary Latin (PG) 1

Elementary Latin (PG) 2

Elementary Greek (PG) 1

Elementary Greek (PG) 2

Intermediate Latin (PG) 1

Intermediate Latin (PG) 2

Intermediate Greek (PG) 1

Intermediate Greek (PG) 2

AND

Courses run in either Semester 1 or Semester 2, the range of specialised courses will vary depending on staffing availability.

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.

Further to discussion with the Programme Director a student may also choose an option from the suite of courses offered by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology or from other Schools.

The subject of A Topic in Late Antique and Byzantine History 1 will be: The Long Twelfth Century: Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades, 1071-1204.
The subject of A Topic in Late Antique and Byzantine History 2 will be: Political Ideology and Collective Identities in the Byzantine World.

African Christianity to 1500 (PG)

Creeds, Councils and Controversies: Patristic and Medieval

Martyrdom, Monasticism and Mysticism: Women Writers of the Early and Medieval Church

Of Wine, Love and Loss: Reading Iran through Classical Persian Literature (PG Version)

The History and Culture of Iran

A Topic in Late Antique and Byzantine History 1

A Topic in Late Antique and Byzantine History 2

Debating Marriage between Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Judaea under Roman Rule

Mariners, Monks and Mobility: the archaeology of the early medieval Atlantic Archipelago

Islamic Philosophy (Online)

Islamic Philosophy