DPT: Ancient and Medieval History (MA Hons) (UTANMEH)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

First year students on this programme will be asked to complete a pre-course enrolment form online, prior to arriving in Welcome Week. Full details on how to do this will be provided in the email we send to you in late August. Please consider the following courses.

The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.

Compulsory courses

Medieval Worlds: A Journey through the Middle Ages

Must be passed

The Historian's Toolkit

Must be passed

Course options

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling.

The Greek World 1A: Greece in the Making

The Greek World 1B: Greece's New Horizons

The Roman World 1A: The Rise of Rome

The Roman World 1B: The Roman Empire

AND

You may only choose one History course (course codes starting HIST and ECSH) as part of this option.

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling.

Architectural History 1B: Revivalism to Modernism

Architectural History 1A: Introduction to World Architecture

Buddhism in Global Contexts

Popular Religion, Women and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1A

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1B

Religion in Modern Britain

Jews and Muslims: Religions, Cultures, Histories

The History of Edinburgh: From Din Eidyn to Festival City

Islamic History A: The Formation of the Islamic World

Islamic History B: From the Crusades to the 'Gunpowder Empires'

Modern Middle Eastern History A: Domestic Transformation and International Challenges

Modern Middle Eastern History B: Postwar Independence and Conflict

Introduction to the History of Philosophy A

Introduction to the History of Philosophy B

History of Science 1

History of Western Medicine

AND

You may not choose History (course codes starting HIST and ECSH) as part of this option. You may find it valuable to take Latin or Greek as outside courses.

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling.

A limited number of courses are also available in Schedules S and X.

Year 2 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

All second year students will be asked to complete a course enrolment form online from the selection below. Full details will be provided by email.

Your attendance will be confirmed at your first cohort meeting of the semester in week 2. Details of these meetings will be sent to you by email. You are expected to attend cohort meetings, and should let your Student Adviser know if you must be absent.

The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.

Compulsory courses

Introduction to Historiography

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

The Transformation of the Roman World, ca. 300-800: Towards Byzantium and the Early Medieval West

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Course options

Ancient History 2b: Themes and Theories in Ancient History

Ancient History 2a: Past and Present in the Ancient World

AND

You can choose only 20 credits of History courses (codes starting HIST and ECSH) as part of this option. We would recommend taking a Year 2 History course as beneficial. Taking or continuing Latin or Greek is also recommended, as are historical courses in other areas such as Ecclesiastical History, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, or History of Medicine.

In order to progress to honours years, you must ensure that at least 90 credits of your chosen courses across years 1 and 2 are at level 8. Please note that you may be restricted on the number of level 7 courses you can take depending on your degree programme.

We recommend the following course for students on this degree (when running) HIST08039: Making and Breaking Medieval Britain.

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling.

A limited number of courses are also available in Schedules S and X.

Year 3 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Entry into Honours normally requires
(i) passes in 240 credits of courses taken in the first two years,
(ii) passes at 50% or above, achieved at the first attempt, in either Ancient History 2A or Ancient History 2B
(iii) a pass at 50% or above, achieved at the first attempt, in the two compulsory year 2 courses.

Entry to honours in Classics remains at the discretion of the Head of Classics in the light of performance across all courses.

Your attendance will be confirmed at your first cohort meeting of the semester in week 1. Details of these meetings will be sent to you by email. You are expected to attend cohort meetings, and should let your Student Adviser know if you must be absent.

The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

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

Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome

Ancient Superpowers: The Armies and Military Monuments of Rome and Persia

After Alexander

The Jewish Diaspora under the Roman Empire

Money, Men and Gods in Archaic and Classical Greece

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

Labour, Wealth, and Inequality: The Economy of the Classical Greek City-States

The Long Twelfth Century: Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades (1071-1204)

Seafaring and Society in the Ancient Greek World

Ammianus Marcellinus and the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century

Religion and War in Archaic and Classical Greece

Roman Egypt

The Rise and Fall of a Star: Julius Caesar in Politics and War

Romans Overseas

Honour in Ancient Greece

Greek History Seminar 1

Greek History Seminar 2

The Archaeology of Iron Age Europe: Hillforts, Burials and Landscapes

Marine Archaeology

Inscribed Objects: Roman Coins and Latin Inscriptions

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Süleyman the Magnificent

Popular Culture in the Ancient World

Race and Ethnicity in the Roman World

Mediterranean interactions in the Late Middle Ages: The Visual Culture of Byzantium, the Ottomans and the Italian penins

Troy after the Fall

Slavery in the Early Middle Ages

The End of an Empire: The Fall of Constantinople in 1453

AND

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

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

The Long Twelfth Century: Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades (1071-1204)

Ammianus Marcellinus and the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Süleyman the Magnificent

Mediterranean interactions in the Late Middle Ages: The Visual Culture of Byzantium, the Ottomans and the Italian penins

Historical Skills and Methods II

Historical Skills and Methods I

The kings in the north: Scotland in the early Middle Ages

Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages

No such thing as a free gift: a long history of donation

Slavery in the Early Middle Ages

Adolescence in Medieval Europe

Revelry and Riot: Popular Culture in Britain, c.1400-1800

African Environmental History

The End of an Empire: The Fall of Constantinople in 1453

AND

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

Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome

Ancient Superpowers: The Armies and Military Monuments of Rome and Persia

After Alexander

The Jewish Diaspora under the Roman Empire

Money, Men and Gods in Archaic and Classical Greece

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

Labour, Wealth, and Inequality: The Economy of the Classical Greek City-States

The Long Twelfth Century: Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades (1071-1204)

Seafaring and Society in the Ancient Greek World

Ammianus Marcellinus and the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century

Religion and War in Archaic and Classical Greece

Roman Egypt

The Rise and Fall of a Star: Julius Caesar in Politics and War

Romans Overseas

Honour in Ancient Greece

Greek History Seminar 1

Greek History Seminar 2

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Second Intermediate Period until the end of the Late Period (1650-332 BC)

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Early Dynastic until the end of the Middle Kingdom (c. 3100-1650 BC)

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics and Beyond

The Archaeology of Iron Age Europe: Hillforts, Burials and Landscapes

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs II: Texts and Contexts

Hellenistic Art

Inscribed Objects: Roman Coins and Latin Inscriptions

The Art and Archaeology of Sparta and Laconia

Archaeology, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Greek Archaeology Seminar 1

Greek Archaeology Seminar 2

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Süleyman the Magnificent

Popular Culture in the Ancient World

Race and Ethnicity in the Roman World

Religion and the Gods in Classical Greek Culture

Mediterranean interactions in the Late Middle Ages: The Visual Culture of Byzantium, the Ottomans and the Italian penins

Women, Writing, Greece: From Sappho to Virginia Woolf and Beyond

Troy after the Fall

Stoic Philosophy at Rome

Plato's Republic in Translation

Greek and Roman Letters

Tiberius, the "Reluctant Princeps"

Classical Literature Seminar 1

Classical Literature Seminar 2

Classical Literature Seminar 3

Virtue, Contemplation, and Happiness: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Greek 1Ha

Greek 1HB

Greek 2Ha

Greek 2Hb

After Byzantium: An Intellectual History of the Greek world, 15th-19th c.

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

Year 4 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Your attendance will be confirmed at your first cohort meeting of the semester in week 1. Details of these meetings will be sent to you by email. You are expected to attend cohort meetings, and should let your Student Adviser know if you must be absent.

The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Classics Dissertation

The dissertation topic must be in medieval history

History Dissertation

AND

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

The Conquest Generation, 1087-1135: England and Henry I

Daughters, Wives and Mothers: Women in England, c.1300-1500

Damnation and redemption in the medieval world: a journey through Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio

Medicine and health in the early Middle Ages

The Order of Nature: Politics of Knowledge from Medieval to Enlightenment Europe

War and History, c.1350-c.1650

Charlemagne's Europe, c. 750 - 825

The Third Europe: Imagining the Czech lands, Hungary, and Poland in the Middle Ages

AND

Please note that Historical Skills & Methods I and Historical Skills & Methods II cannot be taken in 4th year.

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

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

The Long Twelfth Century: Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades (1071-1204)

Ammianus Marcellinus and the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Süleyman the Magnificent

Mediterranean interactions in the Late Middle Ages: The Visual Culture of Byzantium, the Ottomans and the Italian penins

Historical Skills and Methods II

Historical Skills and Methods I

The kings in the north: Scotland in the early Middle Ages

Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages

No such thing as a free gift: a long history of donation

Slavery in the Early Middle Ages

Adolescence in Medieval Europe