Early Modern History

This Masters focuses on the late 15th to 18th centuries, providing opportunities to explore social, political, religious and cultural historical themes across wide geographic and chronological ranges in a university with extensive library, museum and archive collections for this period. Experts in Early Modern Scotland, England, Europe, Africa, and the Americas contribute to our teaching. You will take a core course in Research, Resources and Skills alongside other History students and five optional courses.

WHY THIS PROGRAMME

- Glasgow is an outstanding resource hub for the study of Early Modern History. On campus, the university library holds superb printed and manuscript collections from the medieval to the present. You can also use the Baillie Collection of printed medieval and modern sources in Scottish, Irish and English history. The University’s Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery provides access to primary source materials in fields such as fine art, numismatics and ethnography.

- Members of staff teaching on this programme have close links with the city’s world class museums.

- Early Modern History at Glasgow is a dynamic and supportive research community with an increasingly global perspective, where you’re encouraged to take part in many research led initiatives such as seminar programmes, reading and research groups.

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

-You will take:

One core course
Five optional courses (these courses may include languages offered by other subjects, and (with the permission of the programme convenor) courses offered by other subjects.)
You will also produce a dissertation.

Semester 1: September to December

Core course

DOING HISTORY: SOURCES AND SKILLS FOR HISTORIANS
Two or three optional courses (which can include, but which are not limited to Early Modern History).

Early Modern courses running in session 2021-22 within History this semester are:

HERETICS AND INQUISITORS IN EUROPE,800-1600
MEDIEVAL PALAEOGRAPHY: AN INTRODUCTION TO READING MEDIEVAL DOCUMENTS

Semester 2: January to March

Two or three optional courses (which can include but which are not limited to Early Modern History).

Early Modern courses running in session 2021-22 within History this semester are:

MILITARY SCOTLAND IN THE AGE OF PROTO-GLOBALIZATION, C.1600-C.1800
WORKING WITH MANUSCRIPTS AS HISTORIANS
THE LIFE AND AFTERLIFE OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS

Other courses offered by History and available to you in include:

CULTURE, POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN THE HIGHLAND CLEARANCES
ISSUES, IDEOLOGIES AND INSTITUTIONS OF MODERN SCOTLAND
APPROACHES TO HISTORY (FOR POSTGRADUATES)
GENDER, POLITICS AND POWER
GENDER, CULTURE AND TEXT
THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1945
THE GLOBAL HISTORY OF INEQUALITIES

Please note the availability of a particular course depends on student numbers and patterns of staff leave. Not all courses will be available every year.

Summer: April to September
DISSERTATION (MSC HISTORY)