MPhil Text Seminar
The MPhil students meet as a ‘Seminar’ once a week throughout the Michaelmas and Lent Terms, to discuss a wide range of important texts. They meet as a ‘Symposium’ once a week in the Easter Term, to discuss papers given by two or three students on their own research. Timetable information (days, times, rooms etc) can be found on the termly timetable (here) or on the annual lecture list (here). The schedule for the current term is as follows.
Michaelmas 2012
Week 1: Introduction to the M.Phil. course and seminar
Week 2: IT resources for ASNC
Week 3: Virgil, The Aeneid (any translation)
Week 4: Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain (Penguin Classics)
Week 5: Eusebius, The History of the Church (Penguin Classics) and The Life of Constantine (any translation)
Week 6: Einhard, Life of Charlemagne (Penguin Classics) and Suetonius, Life of Augustus (Penguin Classics)
Week 7: Hrafnkels saga in The Sagas of Icelanders (Penguin Classics)
Week 8: Four Branches of the Mabinogi, translations in The Mabinogion, by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones, or by Jeffrey Gantz
Lent 2013
Week 1: The Bible (the Psalms) (any translation)
Week 2: Bede, Ecclesiastical History (Oxford World’s Classics)
Week 3: Beowulf (any translation)
Week 4: Táin Bó Cúailnge (free translation by Thomas Kinsella or closer translations in the editions by Cecile O’Rahilly)
Week 5: Life of St Antony the Hermit and Sulpicius Severus, Life of St Martin in Early Christian Lives (Penguin Classics)
Week 6: Adomnán, Life of St Columba, translation by Richard Sharpe (Penguin) or in the edition by A. O. and M. O. Anderson
Week 7: Asser’s Life of Alfred in Alfred the Great (Penguin Classics)
Week 8: Snorri Sturluson, Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning (Everyman)