This course is an opportunity to gain grounding in Classical Latin (the foundation for Medieval and Renaissance Latin) and to become sufficiently familiar with Latin primers and dictionaries to be able to make ad hoc translations of Latin phrases, sentences and short texts.
The Director's seminar is a weekly gathering of graduate students and staff from across QM and beyond. As well as welcoming a dynamic group of visiting speakers from pan-disciplinary fields, we aim to discuss topics of all kinds related to the theory and practice of graduate life. All are welcome.
This course is an informal introduction into how IT and web resources can facilitate and aid research. Depending on the skill-level of the group, sessions might focus on navigating web resources, giving PowerPoint presentations, podcasting, the creation of electronic editions and the emerging technologies for future research.
This course is designed to help students, through discussion with their peers, led by Professor Lisa Jardine, to shape their MRes dissertation during the second half of the course, when they are starting to think about planning and writing their 10 – 15,000 word dissertation.
The core course of the Masters in Research provides students with the skills necessary for scholarly archival research. In the first semester students are introduced to manuscript materials. They learn how to access these documents and how to read, transcribe and interpret them. In the second semester the focus shifts from manuscript archives to the early modern printed book.
The writing of a biography of an early modern subject requires the combination of archival and investigative research skills with narrative and presentational strategies. This course will introduce students to the many choices and dilemmas, both scholarly and worldly, faced by biographers, and give them a sense of the genre’s development.
This course explores the central relationship between archival materials and biographical writing. It focuses especially on the role played by autograph and printed letters, whose apparent transparency and strong affect render them particular irresistible to biographers.
