Content of the programme

The students of the B.A./M.A. programme “Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies” choose their courses from three fields of knowledge, all of which provide their own specific approaches to understanding the cultural, social, economic, political, philosophical and theological structures and processes of the European Middle Ages:

·         Field 1: Language and Literature

·         Field 2: Historical sources and theoretical texts

·         Field 3: Material culture and visual representations

Additionally they attend electives that serve the purpose to gain and elaborate liberal arts competencies (e.g. special knowledge of foreign languages, applied informatics, etc.).

The lecturers of medieval subjects participating in the degree programme mark the courses in their course offerings that are suitable for the degree programme and define their correlation to one (or several) fields of knowledge.

Usually the subjects are correlated to the fields as follows:

·         Field 1: English, German, Orient Studies, Romance and Slavic languages

·         Field 2: History, Historical Ancillary Sciences, Church History and Philosophy

·         Field 3: Archaeology of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, Heritage Conservation, Islamic History of Art and Archaeology, Art History

The programme is primarily conducted in German.