This course allows students to achieve an understanding of early Insular culture as a whole, while also specialising in aspects of particular interest to them, although primarily a research degree, formal teaching is offered in the form of a series of weekly text seminars in each term, plus meetings with a supervisor; students also choose to follow at least 1 undergraduate class, in order to acquire or enhance disciplines appropriate to their research subject (e.g. history, palaeography, languages, philology, textual criticism).

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