Byzantine Studies MRes

Summary

This programme is intended for students who have a background in Byzantine Studies and, normally, some knowledge of Greek. Taught elements provide you with an opportunity to deepen your knowledge of Byzantium through a range of modules in archaeology, art, literature, history and numismatics.

Key facts

Type of Course: Combined research and taught

Duration: 1 year full-time; 2 years part-time

Start date: September 2012

Entry requirements

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International students
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Standard English language requirements apply

Contact details

Director of Postgraduate Programmes
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 5497
Email: iaa-pg@bham.ac.uk

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Programme overview

 This programme is intended for students who have a background in Byzantine Studies and, normally, some knowledge of Greek. Taught elements provide you with an opportunity to deepen your knowledge of Byzantium through a range of modules in archaeology, art, literature and numismatics.

The course can be pursued in the following pathways:

At the heart of this degree is the supervised research project, leading to a 20,000- word dissertation tackling a significant topic in Byzantine Studies. We recommend that applicants discuss their proposed research project with a potential supervisor before applying.

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Each pathway consists of 120 credits of coursework and 60 credits achieved through a dissertation.

Byzantine Art

Co-ordinator: Professor Leslie Brubaker

Compulsory modules

  • Byzantine Art and Architecture
  • Methodologies of Byzantine Studies

Optional modules

  • Greek language (intensive course for beginners)
  • Medieval Greek texts
  • A language or other course chosen in consultation with the co-ordinator

Dissertation in Byzantine art/architecture

Byzantine History

Within this pathway, particular themes, periods and events are analysed through a critical reading of the primary sources and an examination of the way in which the sources are used to construct modern narratives.

Co-ordinator : Dr Ruth Macrides

Compulsory modules

 

  • An aspect of Byzantine History
  • Methodologies of Byzantine Studies

Optional modules

  • Greek language (intensive course for beginners)
  • Medieval Greek texts
  • A language or other course chosen in consultation with the co-ordinator

Dissertation in Byzantine History

Late Roman and Byzantine Archaeology

This pathway provides an opportunity (unique in the U.K.) to study the archaeology of the Late Roman to Late Byzantine eras, within a variety of frameworks - theoretical, practical, and historical. It encourages you to explore important aspects of history for which texts offer an insufficient documentation. Lectures introduce the settlement-archaeology, monuments, and all other major kinds of artefacts, in four major chronological divisions; the discipline’s origins and development, and its interface with environmental and comparative archaeologies. The focus is on the Balkans, the Aegean, and Anatolia.

Co-ordinator: Dr Archie Dunn

Compulsory modules

  • Byzantine Archaeology and Material Culture
  • Methodologies of Byzantine Studies

Optional modules

  • Theoretical Approaches to the Past
  • Modern Greek for Postgraduates
  • Medieval Greek texts
  • Other courses in practical archaeology or in Byzantine Studies chosen in consultation with the co-ordinator

Dissertation in late Roman or Byzantine Archaeology