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5 COMPULSORY AND OPTIONAL AUXILIARY CLASSES FOR ALL OPTIONS 5.1 Sources, Methods and Bibliography: compulsory for all Options There will be nine sessions designed for all options. i) Tour of the University Library First of all there are special tours of the University Library, for Option 1, Thursday 7 October at 2.00pm with Ms M McCarthy, for Option 2, Thursday 7 October at 2.00pm with Mr Lars Kjaer, and for Option 3, Thursday 7 October at 2pm with Dr Alex Sapoznik. All tours will meet in the foyer of the University Library. ii) Classes There are also seven sessions on sources, methods and bibliography: Prof M C Carpenter, Dr T Webber, Dr E van Houts and Dr N Berend Monday 11 October-Monday 29 November, 2.00-4.00pm There will be three classes on scholarship and to introduce you to the formation of the great source and reference collections, on historical interpretation of medieval history, especially in the twentieth century, and on dictionaries, lexicons and where to seek information on all manner of topics. These will be followed by an introduction to the conventions employed in producing a bibliography of printed work, unpublished theses, and sources in medieval history, with both the examined Bibliography in Part I and the bibliographies for your essay and dissertation in view (see also Section 6.4). The series will include a class on the problems of editing medieval texts, and a session with guidance on writing the MPhil dissertation. Conventions for proofreading will also be covered. 1 Monday 11 October Dr E van Houts Dictionaries, lexicons and where to go and find out... 2 Monday 18 October Dr N Berend Scholarship and the Great Source & Reference collections in medieval history. 3 Monday 25 October Prof M C Carpenter The history of medieval history 4 Monday 1 November Dr T Webber Critical editions, textual criticism and text transmission 5 Monday 8 November Prof M C Carpenter Producing a Bibliography and Proof-Reading 6 Monday 15 November Prof M C Carpenter Writing the MPhil Essays and Dissertations 7 Monday 22 November No class 8 Monday 29 November Historiographical and Bibliographical Essay Presentations 5.2 Palaeography: compulsory for all Options Palaeography will consist of 16 outline lectures intended for all students supplemented by 8 specialist one-hour classes for “early”, “central” and “late” Medievalists for which details are given below. 13
The lectures are intended to provide a survey of the development of script in the West within an historical context from late antiquity until c.1500. The emphasis will be on methodology, approaches and context, whereas the specialist classes will focus more closely upon practical problems of reading, transcribing, naming and dating; additional practice in reading and transcribing will be provided each week as homework. All the lectures and the specialist classes in your period are compulsory but you are additionally free to go to the other specialist classes. See Section 6.1, page 18, for details of the examination in Palaeography. 5.2.1 Outline Lectures in Palaeography Dr T Webber Latin Palaeography c. AD 100-c. AD 1050; Latin and Vernacular Palaeography c. AD 1050-c. AD1500 There will be two lectures each week during the Michaelmas Term, to be held in on Mondays, 10.00 am – 11.00 am (from 11 October) in the History Faculty and on Tuesdays, 11.00 am – 12.00 noon (from 12 October) in the English Faculty. These lectures aim to give students both an understanding of the relevance of palaeography for historical analysis and interpretation and an introduction to the methodological issues involved in palaeographical analysis. They are also intended to enable students to see how the palaeography they will study within the specialist classes for their own chosen option fits into the development of script across the medieval period. The lectures will examine the development of script and scribal practices from c. AD 100-c. AD 1500, the dynamics of that development, and the characteristics and functions of the different types of script and scribal practices, including the medieval systems of abbreviation. In order to avoid delaying the history of late medieval script until the second half of the Michaelmas Term, the palaeography lectures have been split into two concurrent series, each beginning at the start of term: one set (Mondays, 10.00 am – 11.00 am) will cover the period c. AD 100-c. AD 1050; the other (Tuesdays, 11.00 am – 12.00 noon) c. AD 1050-c. AD1500. They should, however, be viewed as a single series: for example, certain questions of methodology relevant to the entire Middle Ages will only be discussed in the Monday lectures. The Monday lectures will focus upon Latin palaeography only, but the Tuesday lectures will include some consideration of the palaeography of texts (literary and documentary) written in the vernacular (especially English and French). Students will be provided with bibliographies and photocopied specimens of script. 5.2.2 Practical Palaeography Classes for Option 1 Dr T Webber Early Medieval Palaeography (5 th -10 th classes century): eight one-hour transcription These classes aim to teach students to identify, read and date the handwriting found in early medieval books and documents from western Europe. The specimens studied will all be in Latin. The classes will examine the scripts that evolved from those employed in late antiquity: capitals, uncial, half-uncial, the various local and regional minuscules, and Caroline minuscule. Some consideration will also be given to the diplomatic of the documents. Students will be asked to transcribe specimens each week as homework, to name the script and to comment briefly upon criteria for dating. Students will be provided with bibliographies, guidelines on the conventions for transcription, a guide to the more common conventions and symbols of 14
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