Inter-disciplinary Teaching
MA in Late Antiquity at Manchester: Opportunities for study at MA Level
From 2007-08, an interdisciplinary MA Programme in Late Antiquity is planned. This programme will be sponsored by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Arts in the School of Arts, Histories, and Cultures, and will allow both full-time and part-time students to draw on course units from across the School's subject areas, especially History, Classics, Art History and Visual Studies, Archaeology, and Religions and Theology, as well as to pursue language study in both ancient (Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac) and modern languages.
Students will have an opportunity to work directly with the outstanding papyrus and manuscript collections of the John Rylands University Library, as well as to work with inscriptions, coinage, and other material culture collections of the Manchester Museum, and to learn from the expert curatorial staff employed by the university to care for these treasures.
Prospective Students also have the opportunity to enroll in disciplinary MA programmes in the School of Arts, Histories, and Cultures during 2006-07; many of these offer a strong component of late Roman and early Medieval or early Byzantine coursework. These include: History, Religions and Theology, History of Christianity, Ancient World Studies, and Art History and Visual Studies. (Click for links to these programme web-pages.) MA in Religions and Theology and MA in Arts, Histories & Cultures Pathway: Constructions of the Sacred, the Holy & the Supernatural
M.A Course Units
- TH 6021: Pagans and Christians
- HI 4111: The Cult of the Saints in Early Medieval Europe, 350 1050
B.A. Course Units
- TH1051: The Rise of Christianity
- HI 1032: Augustine and the Last Days of Rome
- TH2231/HI 2651: The Body and Society
- CA 3190: Families and Fortunes in the Late Roman World
- TH3542: Early Christian Martyrdom
Pagans and Christians: Directory of Primary Sources
The Pagans and Christians source directory offers a finding aid to help students familiarize themselves with the primary source material on which scholarly understanding of the process of Christianization is based. Where copyright allows, we have included extracts from key primary sources in English translation, accompanied by bibliographical information for further research.
The John Rylands University Library
The John Rylands University Library is the third largest university library in the country and provides state-of-the-art electronic information resources as well as over 3.5 million books and journals and over one million manuscripts dating from the third millennium BC to the present day. Many of these are held in the world-famous John Rylands Library on Deansgate whose special collections represent an outstanding research resource.