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Master of Arts (Honours) Art History and Medieval History


MA (Hons) Art History (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 20 and 40 credits from Module List: AH1001, AH1003 AND
AH1001 Art in Europe and Beyond to 1600 20
AH1003 Art in Europe and Beyond 1600-1800 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) Medieval History (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
ME1003 The Fall of Rome and the Origins of Europe (400-1000) 20 AND
ME1006 Scotland and the English Empire 1070 - 1500 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

Over the first two years, a further pass (other than ME2003) must be at 11 or better and at least 40 credits must be gained in modules other than those in the ranges AN, HI, ME, MH, MO and DI2006.

MA (Hons) Art History (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
* AH2001 Modernity, Empire, and Revolution: Art from 1789-1900 20 AND
* AH2002 Art, Culture and Politics, from 1900 to Now 20 AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass at grade 11 or better in the modules marked *
MA (Hons) Medieval History (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
* ME2003 Medieval Europe (11th - 15th c.) 20 AND
* View list 20 credits from Module List: AN2003, HI2001, MH2002, MO2008 AND
AN2003 Mediterranean Communities 20
HI2001 History as a Discipline: Development and Key Concepts 20
MH2002 Introduction to Middle Eastern History 20
MO2008 Scotland, Britain and Empire (c. 1500 - 2000) 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Over the first two years, a further pass (other than ME2003) must be at 11 or better and at least 40 credits must be gained in modules other than those in the ranges AN, HI, ME, MH, MO and DI2006.

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass at grade 11 or better in the modules marked *

Entry to Honours

Students who meet the requirements specified above, and who meet all other programme requirements, will be given automatic entry into Honours programmes.

See: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/media/teaching-and-learning/policies/honsentry.pdf )

MA Honours

The general requirements are 480 credits over a period of normally four years (and not more than five years) or part-time equivalent, of which the final two years form an approved Honours programme of 240 credits, of which 90 credits are at 4000 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 levels.

MA (Hons) Art History (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: AH3000 - AH4089, AH4100 - AH4899 (excluding AH4794 - AH4795) AND
AH3104 Central European Art, Architecture and Design, c. 1900 30
AH3130 Approaches to Art History 30
AH3131 A Survey of Islamic Art 30
AH3196 Modern Art beyond the West 30
AH3235 Spanish Painting in the Age of Velázquez 30
AH3901 Walter Richard Sickert and European Art c. 1880 - 1940 30
AH3902 The Country, City and Society in Nineteenth-Century French Art 30
AH3904 From Hogarth to Sickert: British Painting and the Theatre (1740 - 1930) 30
AH3905 'No day without a line': The Etching Revival in Britain: 1830-1930 30
AH4050 Approaches to Persian Painting and the Arts of the Book 30
AH4051 ‘Ajab: The Aesthetics of Wonder in Islamic Art 30
AH4076 Rubens and Rembrandt: Parallel Worlds 30
AH4078 Art and Politics in France, 1945 - 1975 30
AH4081 The Scandinavian Art of Building and Design: Identity and Myth 30
AH4087 Aspects of Surrealism 30
AH4130 Realism and Symbolism in Russian Art 1820-1910 30
AH4142 Aspects of Modern Photography, 1910 - 1950 30
AH4147 Classicism in Western Art: The Legacy of Greece and Rome 30
AH4148 Orientalism and Visual Culture 30
AH4156 Seeing the Sixties 30
AH4161 Gauguin and Primitivism 30
AH4163 Approaches to Modern Sculpture 30
AH4166 Histories of Photography (1835 - 1905) 30
AH4167 Symbolism, Decadence and Modernity 30
AH4170 Art, Piety and Performance: Charitable Institutions in Early Modern Venice 30
AH4173 Architecture and its Image. From Brunelleschi to Palladio 30
AH4174 Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela 30
AH4175 Luxury Goods in the Middle Ages 30
AH4176 Early Modern Cities 30
AH4177 Objects of Devotion: The Art and Material Culture of Medieval Christianity 30
AH4182 Principles and Protagonists of Italian Renaissance Architecture 30
AH4183 The Senses, Objects, and Buildings in Early Modern Europe 30
AH4184 The Art of the Apocalypse from the Middle Ages to the Present 30
AH4185 Michelangelo: Sculptor, Painter, Architect 30
AH4190 Romanticism and Visuality 1780 - 1830 30
AH4191 Art, Science and Technology 1700-1900 30
AH4192 Images of Empire 30
AH4196 English Art and Modernism 30
AH4205 Byzantium, 330 - 1453: Art, Religion and Imperial Power 30
AH4206 Raphael and His Reception 30
AH4208 The Portrait in Western Art 30
AH4209 Portuguese Renaissance from Local to Global 30
AH4211 Islam and the Arts 30
AH4213 Dada and Surrealism 30
AH4214 Body / Politics: Performance Art Since 1960 30
AH4215 Critical Issues in Contemporary Art 30
AH4216 Medieval Islamic Painting 30
AH4218 The Art of Iran, 600 B.C. to 1700 A.D. 30
AH4221 The French Avant-Garde from Realism to Impressionism 30
AH4222 Art, Theatre and Performance in France 1600-1800 30
AH4226 African Modernisms 30
AH4227 Scotland and the Arts of Africa 30
AH4235 Communication in Art History 15
AH4236 Images and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe 30
AH4240 The Art of War: Battle, Rivalry, Paragone, 1400-1700 30
AH4241 Leonardo da Vinci, 500 years later 30
AH4245 The Intersectional Body in Art Since the 1960s 30
AH4246 The Art and Visual Culture of the Global HIV/AIDS epidemic 30
AH4250 Latin American Modernisms 30
AH4251 Postmodernism and Contemporary Art in Latin America 30
AH4252 Art History and Environmental Crisis 30
AH4253 Decolonial, Feminist, Queer: Histories of Art in Britain Since 1945 30
AH4260 Ottoman Art and Architecture 30
AH4265 Aspects of Japanese Visual Culture 1820-1920 30
AH4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
AH4795 Joint Dissertation (60cr) 60
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

With the permission of the Director of Teaching and the relevant Head of School, 30 credits in Third or Fourth year may be substituted by 3000- or 4000- level credits from another subject.
MA (Hons) Medieval History (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: ME3001 - ME3689, MO3026, MO3036, MO3037, MO3043 - MO3044, MO3080 - MO3081
ME3018 Conflict and cooperation: church and monarchy in Britain, 1066-1307 30
ME3019 Early English Society c.600-850 30
ME3020 The Chastising Church: Excommunication, Public Penance and Interdict in the High Middle Ages 30
ME3021 History and Archaeology of Medieval Monasticism: Scotland and Ireland 30
ME3105 Archaeological Methods 30
ME3106 The History and Archaeology of Medieval Monasticism 30
ME3142 The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
ME3162 The Medieval Castle 30
ME3163 The Imperial City: Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople 30
ME3164 Archaeology of Late Antiquity and the Early Islamic Middle East: Architecture and Representations of Power (C4th-C12th) 30
ME3206 Inclusion and Exclusion in the Middle Ages 30
ME3214 Italian City States: from Communes to Signorie c. 1000- c. 1350 30
ME3223 The Rise and Fall of the Carolingian Empire, c.750 - 900 30
ME3231 Medieval Apocalyptic Traditions 400 - 1200 30
ME3232 Queens and Queenship in Early Medieval Europe 30
ME3236 Soldiers and Saints in Late Roman Gaul 30
ME3237 Legal Cultures in Late Antiquity 30
ME3238 Holy Lives in Late Antiquity 30
ME3239 Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Early Medieval West 30
ME3240 Pandemic, Medicine and Society in the Early Middle Ages 30
ME3241 Sex and Gender in Medieval Europe 30
ME3242 'In a Dark Wood Wandering': War, Plague, and Society in Valois France, 1328-1422 30
ME3304 Age of Conquest: Edward I - Scotland and Wales (1239 - 1307) 30
ME3308 Adomnan and his World: Scotland and Ireland in the Dark Ages 30
ME3309 Medieval St Andrews 30
ME3313 Early Irish Society (c. 600-800) 30
ME3314 Times of trouble: civil conflicts in the later fifteenth century 30
ME3315 Scandinavians in the First Millennium 30
ME3420 Rich and Poor in the Later Middle Ages 30
ME3423 Justifying Medieval Warfare 30
ME3425 The Age of Revolt (1250 - 1450) 30
ME3426 Women and Gender in the Later Middle Ages 30
ME3427 Nature and the Occult in the Late Middle Ages 30
ME3428 Death and the Afterlife in Later Medieval Europe 30
ME3429 England and France at War in the Fourteenth Century 30
ME3430 The Papal Monarchy: Popes, emperors and kings in the high middle ages 30
ME3431 Senses and Feelings in the Later Middle Ages 30
ME3432 The Devil's Brood: English kings and kingship from Henry II to Henry III 30
ME3433 The Medieval Landscape and Environment 30
ME3502 The Medieval Book 30
ME3602 The Crusades viewed from the other side: Muslim perspectives 30
ME3608 Eastern Approaches: Early Medieval Armenia c. 500 - 750 30
ME3611 The Eastern Roman Empire in the Reign of Justinian 527 - 565 30
ME3612 Cataclysm and Consolidation: the Reconfiguration of the Middle East in the Seventh Century 30
ME3613 Arabs, Persians and Turks in the Early Islamic East in the Age of the Caliphates (600 - 1200) 30
ME3616 Missionaries, Assassins and State-builders: Militant Shiæism in the Medieval Muslim World 30
ME3617 The Mamluks And The Mamluk Sultanate 30
MO3026 Art and Piety in Western Europe 1400 - 1750 30
MO3043 Early Modern Rome (1300 - 1667) 30
MO3044 Topics in Renaissance Venice 30
MO3080 Nomadic Heritage and Persianate Culture: the Iranian world from Timurids to the Safavids (1370-1722) 30
MO3081 The Ottoman Empire 1300 - 1700 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules taught by any one member of staff and not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules in British History
MA (Hons) Art History (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: AH4097, AH4099, AH4794 - AH4795 AND
AH4097 60-Credit Honours Dissertation in Art History 60
AH4099 30-Credit Dissertation in Art History 30
AH4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
AH4795 Joint Dissertation (60cr) 60
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: AH3000 - AH4089, AH4100 - AH4899, ID4002
AH3104 Central European Art, Architecture and Design, c. 1900 30
AH3130 Approaches to Art History 30
AH3131 A Survey of Islamic Art 30
AH3196 Modern Art beyond the West 30
AH3235 Spanish Painting in the Age of Velázquez 30
AH3901 Walter Richard Sickert and European Art c. 1880 - 1940 30
AH3902 The Country, City and Society in Nineteenth-Century French Art 30
AH3904 From Hogarth to Sickert: British Painting and the Theatre (1740 - 1930) 30
AH3905 'No day without a line': The Etching Revival in Britain: 1830-1930 30
AH4050 Approaches to Persian Painting and the Arts of the Book 30
AH4051 ‘Ajab: The Aesthetics of Wonder in Islamic Art 30
AH4076 Rubens and Rembrandt: Parallel Worlds 30
AH4078 Art and Politics in France, 1945 - 1975 30
AH4081 The Scandinavian Art of Building and Design: Identity and Myth 30
AH4087 Aspects of Surrealism 30
AH4130 Realism and Symbolism in Russian Art 1820-1910 30
AH4142 Aspects of Modern Photography, 1910 - 1950 30
AH4147 Classicism in Western Art: The Legacy of Greece and Rome 30
AH4148 Orientalism and Visual Culture 30
AH4156 Seeing the Sixties 30
AH4161 Gauguin and Primitivism 30
AH4163 Approaches to Modern Sculpture 30
AH4166 Histories of Photography (1835 - 1905) 30
AH4167 Symbolism, Decadence and Modernity 30
AH4170 Art, Piety and Performance: Charitable Institutions in Early Modern Venice 30
AH4173 Architecture and its Image. From Brunelleschi to Palladio 30
AH4174 Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela 30
AH4175 Luxury Goods in the Middle Ages 30
AH4176 Early Modern Cities 30
AH4177 Objects of Devotion: The Art and Material Culture of Medieval Christianity 30
AH4182 Principles and Protagonists of Italian Renaissance Architecture 30
AH4183 The Senses, Objects, and Buildings in Early Modern Europe 30
AH4184 The Art of the Apocalypse from the Middle Ages to the Present 30
AH4185 Michelangelo: Sculptor, Painter, Architect 30
AH4190 Romanticism and Visuality 1780 - 1830 30
AH4191 Art, Science and Technology 1700-1900 30
AH4192 Images of Empire 30
AH4196 English Art and Modernism 30
AH4205 Byzantium, 330 - 1453: Art, Religion and Imperial Power 30
AH4206 Raphael and His Reception 30
AH4208 The Portrait in Western Art 30
AH4209 Portuguese Renaissance from Local to Global 30
AH4211 Islam and the Arts 30
AH4213 Dada and Surrealism 30
AH4214 Body / Politics: Performance Art Since 1960 30
AH4215 Critical Issues in Contemporary Art 30
AH4216 Medieval Islamic Painting 30
AH4218 The Art of Iran, 600 B.C. to 1700 A.D. 30
AH4221 The French Avant-Garde from Realism to Impressionism 30
AH4222 Art, Theatre and Performance in France 1600-1800 30
AH4226 African Modernisms 30
AH4227 Scotland and the Arts of Africa 30
AH4235 Communication in Art History 15
AH4236 Images and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe 30
AH4240 The Art of War: Battle, Rivalry, Paragone, 1400-1700 30
AH4241 Leonardo da Vinci, 500 years later 30
AH4245 The Intersectional Body in Art Since the 1960s 30
AH4246 The Art and Visual Culture of the Global HIV/AIDS epidemic 30
AH4250 Latin American Modernisms 30
AH4251 Postmodernism and Contemporary Art in Latin America 30
AH4252 Art History and Environmental Crisis 30
AH4253 Decolonial, Feminist, Queer: Histories of Art in Britain Since 1945 30
AH4260 Ottoman Art and Architecture 30
AH4265 Aspects of Japanese Visual Culture 1820-1920 30
AH4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
AH4795 Joint Dissertation (60cr) 60
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

With the permission of the Director of Teaching and the relevant Head of School, 30 credits in Third or Fourth year may be substituted by 3000- or 4000- level credits from another subject.
MA (Hons) Medieval History (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: ME4701 - ME4889 OR
ME4712 'A Century of Iron': Rulers, Warriors and Scholars in Tenth-Century England and Germany 60
ME4750 Conflict and Cohabitation: Northern Britain c.550 – 750 60
ME4752 Robert Bruce and Edward II: Kings, Nobles and Communities in the British Isles (1306 – 1346) 60
ME4756 Historia Brittonum: Inventing the Past in Ninth-Century Wales 60
ME4757 Monks and Nuns, Saints and Nobles: Germany in the High Middle Ages 60
ME4758 Gendered Lives: Men and Women in the Later Middle Ages 60
ME4806 The Age of Charlemagne c. 750 - 830 60
ME4807 The Early Mendicants: Francis, Clare and Dominic (c. 1180 - c. 1270) 60
ME4815 France from Philip Augustus to Philip the Fair, c.1180-1315 60
ME4816 The Western Just War Tradition: Ethics, Laws, and Practices of War from Antiquity to the Renaissance 60
ME4852 From Leo VI to Basil II: Byzantium in the Tenth Century 60
ME4855 Crusaders, Mongols and Mamluks: West and East in the Mid-Thirteenth Century 60
ME4856 From Byzantium to the Ottoman Empire 60
ME4857 The Mongol Empire and the Islamic World 60
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
( View list 30 credits from Module List: HI4999, HI4997 AND
HI4999 Honours Dissertation in History 30
HI4997 Recording the Past 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 30 credits from Module List: ME3001 - ME3689, MO3026, MO3036, MO3037, MO3043 - MO3044, MO3080 - MO3081 ) OR
ME3018 Conflict and cooperation: church and monarchy in Britain, 1066-1307 30
ME3019 Early English Society c.600-850 30
ME3020 The Chastising Church: Excommunication, Public Penance and Interdict in the High Middle Ages 30
ME3021 History and Archaeology of Medieval Monasticism: Scotland and Ireland 30
ME3105 Archaeological Methods 30
ME3106 The History and Archaeology of Medieval Monasticism 30
ME3142 The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
ME3162 The Medieval Castle 30
ME3163 The Imperial City: Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople 30
ME3164 Archaeology of Late Antiquity and the Early Islamic Middle East: Architecture and Representations of Power (C4th-C12th) 30
ME3206 Inclusion and Exclusion in the Middle Ages 30
ME3214 Italian City States: from Communes to Signorie c. 1000- c. 1350 30
ME3223 The Rise and Fall of the Carolingian Empire, c.750 - 900 30
ME3231 Medieval Apocalyptic Traditions 400 - 1200 30
ME3232 Queens and Queenship in Early Medieval Europe 30
ME3236 Soldiers and Saints in Late Roman Gaul 30
ME3237 Legal Cultures in Late Antiquity 30
ME3238 Holy Lives in Late Antiquity 30
ME3239 Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Early Medieval West 30
ME3240 Pandemic, Medicine and Society in the Early Middle Ages 30
ME3241 Sex and Gender in Medieval Europe 30
ME3242 'In a Dark Wood Wandering': War, Plague, and Society in Valois France, 1328-1422 30
ME3304 Age of Conquest: Edward I - Scotland and Wales (1239 - 1307) 30
ME3308 Adomnan and his World: Scotland and Ireland in the Dark Ages 30
ME3309 Medieval St Andrews 30
ME3313 Early Irish Society (c. 600-800) 30
ME3314 Times of trouble: civil conflicts in the later fifteenth century 30
ME3315 Scandinavians in the First Millennium 30
ME3420 Rich and Poor in the Later Middle Ages 30
ME3423 Justifying Medieval Warfare 30
ME3425 The Age of Revolt (1250 - 1450) 30
ME3426 Women and Gender in the Later Middle Ages 30
ME3427 Nature and the Occult in the Late Middle Ages 30
ME3428 Death and the Afterlife in Later Medieval Europe 30
ME3429 England and France at War in the Fourteenth Century 30
ME3430 The Papal Monarchy: Popes, emperors and kings in the high middle ages 30
ME3431 Senses and Feelings in the Later Middle Ages 30
ME3432 The Devil's Brood: English kings and kingship from Henry II to Henry III 30
ME3433 The Medieval Landscape and Environment 30
ME3502 The Medieval Book 30
ME3602 The Crusades viewed from the other side: Muslim perspectives 30
ME3608 Eastern Approaches: Early Medieval Armenia c. 500 - 750 30
ME3611 The Eastern Roman Empire in the Reign of Justinian 527 - 565 30
ME3612 Cataclysm and Consolidation: the Reconfiguration of the Middle East in the Seventh Century 30
ME3613 Arabs, Persians and Turks in the Early Islamic East in the Age of the Caliphates (600 - 1200) 30
ME3616 Missionaries, Assassins and State-builders: Militant Shiæism in the Medieval Muslim World 30
ME3617 The Mamluks And The Mamluk Sultanate 30
MO3026 Art and Piety in Western Europe 1400 - 1750 30
MO3043 Early Modern Rome (1300 - 1667) 30
MO3044 Topics in Renaissance Venice 30
MO3080 Nomadic Heritage and Persianate Culture: the Iranian world from Timurids to the Safavids (1370-1722) 30
MO3081 The Ottoman Empire 1300 - 1700 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 60 credits from Module List: HI4998, (ID4002 and HI4101)
HI4998 Honours Project in History 30
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
HI4101 Communication in History 15
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

HI4997 is only available to students with permission from the Chair of the Degree.
Access to ID4002 and HI4101 requires the permission of the Director of Teaching.
HI4998 can replace HI4999 if the student has the permission to take (ID4002 and HI4101).

Not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules taught by any one member of staff and not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules in British History

Study abroad

In the case of students who spend part of the Honours programme on a recognised Study Abroad scheme, the Programme Requirements will be amended to take into account overseas courses which are approved by the relevant St Andrews School in the Learning Agreement (see www.st-andrews.ac.uk/students/study-abroad/academic ).