Medieval English: Sex, Gender & Culture

Explore medieval literature and language from three inter-connected perspectives: gender and sexuality studies; cultural studies (especially cultural approaches to the study of medieval religious texts); and the relation between verbal and visual artefacts, complementing the department’s strengths in manuscript, lexical, and source studies.

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• Unrivalled location in the centre of London, with easy access to the British Library and the major libraries and archives of the capital.
• Flexible programme with a wide range of options allows students the opportunity to specialise in areas of their choice.
• A dynamic, research-led department with an international reputation for excellence.

PURPOSETo develop critical understanding. To enable you to concentrate upon specific areas of literary and cultural studies and acquire advanced skills in research methods. To prepare you for doctoral study.

DESCRIPTIONThis programme offers students the opportunity to explore medieval literature and language from a number of different yet complementary perspectives. Theoretical perspectives such as cultural studies, gender and sexuality; interdisciplinary projects such as the relationship between the verbal and the visual, or that between the historical, the literary and the cultural, find their place beside the department’s traditional strengths in manuscript, lexical and source studies of the period. The pathway offers ample provision for research into the Old and Middle English periods, whether your interest is in e.g. the materiality of text, the medieval city, postcolonial medieval studies, gender and sexuality, religious writing, romance, drama, Chaucer, Malory, or Langland.