Postgraduate Course: Palaeography and Codicology: Scribes, Texts and Manuscripts in the Middle Ages (Half Course) (PGHC11177)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Postgraduate (School of History and Classics) |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | To introduce students to the basic scripts of Western Europe; to enable them to read and identify book and cursive hands in Latin and the vernacular (English, French, Scots) from late Roman to late medieval; to provide students with insight into the basic concepts of book decoration and illumination; to provide an introduction to the construction of the codex and to page layout; to introduce students to a variety of text types (literary, liturgical, school-book, documentary and record); to introduce students to the principles and problems underlying editorial techniques and practices in different disciplines. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| An ability to identify, decipher and transcribe scripts used in manuscripts written in continental Europe and the British Isles written in Latin, French, English and Scots between ca. 600 CE and ca. 1500 CE; an ability to identify different scripts and assign an approximate date to them; an appreciation of the implications of various forms of page layout and decoration and an ability to describe and analyse such layouts and decorations; an appreciation of the differing approaches to and uses of critical, synoptic, semi-diplomatic, and diplomatic editions of medieval texts in literary, linguistic and historical studies, an understanding of critical apparatus; an ability to produce a sample edition appropriate to one of the languages and disciplines covered by the course. |
Assessment Information
| Two transcription exercises, a brief 'in class' assessment and one editorial exercise equivalent to 8,000 words. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
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Course secretary | Mr Nicholas Ovenden
Tel: (0131 6)50 9948
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