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Celtic Studies

Optional courses

Language 

Over two semesters (40 credits)
Introductory or, if appropriate, advanced study in:

  • Early Gaelic / Old and Middle Irish

  • Middle Welsh

  • Modern Scottish Gaelic

Specialist Options

Two specialist courses, one in each semester. (20 credits each)

Normally these consist of either small group or one-to-one tutorial work on particular research topics with specialists in that field. Students may alternatively, with the approval of the course convener, take a taught course from a cognate master’s programme; take another language course; or in rare instances take an undergraduate Honours course with special postgraduate assessment. Specialisms include but are note limited to:

  • Medieval Irish and Welsh literature

  • Arthur in medieval Welsh literature

  • Christianity in early medieval Scotland

  • Legal traditions of medieval Ireland and Wales

  • Kingship in early medieval Ireland and Scotland

  • The written sources for Gaelic and Pictish history before 1100

  • Sources for the northern Britons; Gaelic Scotland 11th-13th centuries

  • Innse Gall before the Lordship

  • Celtic place-names of Scotland

  • The historical development of the Gaelic languages

  • Scottish society in the early and central middle ages: the evidence of place-names and property records

  • Early medieval settlement patterns and structures

  • The development of the Scottish Church before the twelfth century

  • The archaeology of the Church; Pictish monuments and sculpture

  • The written sources for Scottish history in the 12th and 13th centuries

  • Archaeology and architecture of castles

  • Integrating archaeological and historical evidence

  • Early medieval hagiography

  • Scottish identity in the middle ages

  • Origin myths in early medieval Scotland

  • Origin myths in late medieval Scotland

  • The Lordship of the Isles

  • Indigenous sources for the history of Gaelic Scotland in the later middle ages: poetry, traditional history, monumental

  • Language, culture, and learning in late-medieval Gaelic Scotland

  • Identity in Gaelic Scotland in the later middle ages

  • Gaelic Scotland and Ireland in the later middle ages

  • Secular society in northern Britain and Ireland: archaeology

  • The Church in northern Britain and Ireland: archaeology

  • 'Highlands’ and ‘lowlands’

  • Law and Society