Master of Arts in Medieval and Early Modern Textual Cultures 1381 - 1688

University of East Anglia

UK,England

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12 Months

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CAD 18,500/year

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UK, England

Type: University

Location Type: Semi-Urban

Founded: 1963

Total Students: 16,872 +

Int. Students: 2,820 +

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Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom

Master of Arts in Medieval and Early Modern Textual Cultures 1381 - 1688

Program Overview

You will work closely with local material and local archival sources. East Anglia was home to an extraordinarily rich literary culture in the medieval and early-modern periods and this has left behind fabulous materials to research. Thousands of early-modern printed books and a small number of important medieval manuscripts are preserved in the Norfolk Heritage Centre.

The core of that collection is the Norwich City Library. Founded in 1608, it’s one of England's most important and best-preserved regional libraries. The Norfolk Record Office holds extraordinary medieval and early-modern manuscripts, which include documentary records of East Anglia’s history, poetry miscellanies, letters, maps, heraldic papers, and more.

Together, these archives bear witness to Norwich's role as a vibrant, cosmopolitan, and religiously diverse international centre of trade and culture. This archival landscape is yours to explore and use to develop your own original research projects.

The MA has a strongly interdisciplinary character. You will explore the range of cutting-edge methods by which scholars are researching the cultures of these periods. You will move freely between texts, material artefacts, and visual art, and will consider how unpublished manuscript evidence can help us to understand the priorities of medieval and early-modern readers.