Medieval and Renaissance Literature
The M.Phil, provides a twelve month course of literary study and training in research methods. It is also designed to serve as the first year of study for students in the Medieval and/or Renaissance periods who intend to continue with work towards either the M.Litt. or the Ph.D. degree. The course offers individual supervision of dissertations or essays, classes in such areas as palaeography and textual and bibliographical studies, together with seminars on the interpretation of literary texts of the Medieval and/or Renaissance periods. For those requiring it, an intensive introductory course in Medieval Latin will be available at the end of the Long Vacation preceding the start of a student’s course. Cambridge University Library and the college libraries contain rich holdings of manuscripts, early primed books, and secondary works, which offer exceptional opportunities for original research. Prospective students are encouraged to write to the Secretary of the Degree Committee, address above, or consult the website for a more detailed description of the course.
The scheme of examination for the one-year course consists of:
(a) either (i) a thesis of not more than 15,000 words, including footnotes and
appendices but excluding bibliography, or some other equivalent submission, on a subject approved by the Degree Committee for the Faculty of English, which must fall within one of the following areas of study:
Medieval literature.
Renaissance literature.
Medieval and Renaissance literature;
or (ii) three essays, which together must amount to not more than 15,000 words, including footnotes and appendices but excluding bibliographies, on subjects and of lengths approved by the Degree Committee;
and
(b) two essays, each of not more than 4,000 words, on topics approved by the Degree
Committee;
and
(c) one or more written exercises, approved by the Degree Committee, in the field of textual and related studies in either the Medieval period or the Renaissance or both.
The examination includes, at the discretion of the Examiners, an oral examination upon the thesis or the essays and upon the general field of knowledge within which the work submitted falls; such an oral examination may include questions relating to the written papers and to the other exercises submitted by the candidate under (b) and (c) above.
Special Note
Applicants should provide the information required of all applicants for research in the Faculty of English.
Closing date for completed applications: 15 February.
Certificate of Postgraduate Study in English
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