This MA in Medieval Studies is for students who are interested in any aspect of the medieval world and who wish to take those interests further. Whether those interests lie in Irish or European history, literature or archaeology, art history or music, languages and manuscript studies or modern interpretations of the medieval, this programme offers students the opportunity to choose modules from such areas and combine them as they wish. While emphasizing choice and drawing on the wide range of expertise in medieval disciplines across the University, the MA also ensures that students gain a strong training in scholarly approaches to the medieval past and its people, as well as an opportunity to pursue in-depth research on a specialist dissertation topic. 

 

Our students come from different academic backgrounds and choose a range of career paths. What they have in common is an interest in the medieval world, and an eagerness to explore different ways of investigating and understanding that world. We value an interdisciplinary approach to the Middle Ages: students are allowed to choose from relevant subjects in History, English, Irish, Archaeology, Languages, Classics and Music, from Ireland to Byzantium and from the fall of the Roman Empire to the dawn of the Renaissance. 

 

UCD is a university with real depth and breadth of expertise in medieval studies, while UCD’s archives hold some of Ireland’s most important medieval manuscripts. Students are able to take advantage of UCD’s location in Dublin, a city founded by the Vikings, and may avail of resources nearby, including the National Library, other library collections and regular research seminars across the city. Dublin is an ideal base from which to explore Ireland’s medieval sites.

 

• Interdisciplinary approach to the Middle Ages
• Small group work
• Opportunity to pursue individual research interests