Interdisciplinary postgraduate research in the Institute for Medieval Studies

Interdisciplinary research degrees (PhD and MPhil) are offered by the Institute for Medieval Studies. Supervision is available in a very wide range of topics and combinations of topics including:

• early medieval European history and culture
• the inter-relationships of Latin and the vernaculars
• Anglo-Saxon literature, history and art history
• Old Norse literature and mythology
• Norse-Celtic literary relations
• Anglo-Norman literature
• Latin and Anglo-Latin literature
• Mediterranean and Islamic studies
• medieval Arabic language and linguistics
• Muslim Sicily and Malta
• Islamic philosophy and theology
• Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, monuments and artefacts
• Italian and Spanish Jewish social history
• Middle English literature
• medieval drama, music and minstrelsy
• archaeology
• medieval English buildings, religious communities, towns, landscape and settlement
• late medieval English politics, culture and society
• late medieval Italian literature and society
• German literature; trade and economic history
• biblical exegesis
• sermon studies
• medieval mystics
• missionaries
• pilgrimage
• military history
• chivalry
• the Crusades
• chronicles
• mathematics, science and technology
• medieval feminist studies
• manuscript studies
• post-medieval reception of medieval texts

Scope of research projects
The IMS has adopted a broad definition of interdisciplinarity, using one or both of the following descriptions:

1) the plan of study embraces more than one traditional subject area from the humanities, and clearly indicates how these may function symbiotically in the research

2) the plan of study embraces more than one methodology from the humanities and clearly indicates how these methodologies complement one another in the research.

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