palaeography, or quantitative and computing skills or may elect to take a module such as Living with the Lion: Themes in the Study of Mediaeval Scotland or Religion and Identity in Early Modern Britain or Building Britain: The Construction and Deconstruction of Britishness, 1707-2000. Supplementary classes in Scots, Gaelic, Latin, Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon, French, and palaeography are also available. Students who satisfactorily complete the taught element of the programme (Postgraduate Diploma) will be allowed to continue to the three-month, 15,000-word dissertation (MLitt) or to a 40,000-word dissertation over the next fifteen months (MPhil).


The Book. History and Techniques of Analysis Programme Director: Dr Malcolm Walsby (mnw@st-andrews.ac.uk) Aim of Programme: This programme aims to provide students with a good understanding of key issues and methods in book history ca.1445-1830. Through the evaluation of primary and secondary sources students will become familiar with the invention, development, spread, and transformation of printing in the period concerned. They will develop a sound knowledge of important aspects of book history, such as the economics of the book trade, the social and religious context of printed books, the development of the illustrated book, the relationship between books and the Enlightenment, and the history of libraries and book collecting. Students will also acquire the technical skills required for rare book curatorship.


Programme Content: Students will take a compulsory core module, Books and their readers in Early Modern Europe. They will also undertake skills training in paleography and either Latin or a modern foreign language, and will choose an appropriate Directed Reading module in consultation with members of staff. Students will, where possible, be taught within the University Library using selected materials from Special Collections. The School of History is home to leading book historians (Professor Andrew Pettegree, Dr Malcolm Walsby, Dr Emily Michelson) and hosts the French Book Project, one of the most important book history projects of recent years, and the recently inaugurated Universal Short-Title Catalogue project. Students who satisfactorily complete the taught element of the programme (Postgraduate Diploma) will be allowed to continue to the three-month, 15,000-word dissertation (MLitt) or to a 40,000-word dissertation over the next fifteen months (MPhil).


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