Late Antique & Byzantine Studies – (M.A.)

The MA in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies offers the opportunity to specialize in an exciting and multi-faceted field of study that covers the history and culture of the Eastern Mediterranean world during the long millennium from the foundation of Constantinople (modern Istanbul) in 324 to the fall of the Byzantine empire in 1453. The degree allows students, through the numerous modules on offer, to acquire expertise in the necessary research skills (ancient languages, palaeography, epigraphy, papyrology) and in a variety of disciplines (history, literature, material culture, philosophy).
A research skill, to be chosen from: Language (medieval Greek or Latin), Greek Palaeography, Elementary Greek Palaeography, Latin Paleography, Latin Epigraphy, Greek Epigraphy, Greek Papyrology, an appropriate module from the MA in Digital Humanities, another language);