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. The schedule for the current term is as follows. Any enquiries should be addressed to the Departmental Secretary.
Lent 2012
Week 1: Bede, Ecclesiastical History including ‘Letter to Ecgberht’(Oxford World’s Classics)
Week 2: Beowulf (any translation)
Week 3: Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain (Penguin Classics)
Week 4: Hrafnkels saga in The Sagas of Icelanders (Penguin Classics)
Week 5: Asser’s Life of Alfred in Alfred the Great (Penguin Classics)
Week 6: Four Branches of the Mabinogi, translations in The Mabinogion, by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones, or by Jeffrey Gantz
Week 7: Táin Bó Cúailnge (free translation by Thomas Kinsella or closer translations in the editions by Cecile O’Rahilly)
Week 8: Adomnán, Life of St Columba, translation by Richard Sharpe (Penguin) or in the edition by A. O. and M. O. Anderson
Michaelmas 2011
Week 1: Introduction to the M.Phil. course and seminar; bibliography and style sheets
Week 2: IT-resources for ASNC
Week 3: The Bible (the Psalms) (any translation))
Week 4: Virgil, The Aeneid (any translation)
Week 5: Eusebius, The History of the Church (Penguin Classics) and The Life of Constantine (any translation)
Week 6: Life of St Antony the Hermit and Sulpicius Severus, Life of St Martin in Early Christian Lives (Penguin Classics)
Week 7: Einhard, Life of Charlemagne (Penguin Classics) and Suetonius, Life of Augustus (Penguin Classics)
Week 8: Snorri Sturluson, Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning (Everyman)