Early Modern History Programme Director: Dr Guy Rowlands (
gr30@st-andrews.ac.uk) Aim of Programme: This degree will provide students with advanced training in the history of the early modern European and Atlantic worlds, including the Ottoman Empire. It will introduce students to a range of approaches to early modern history, and will give students unusually wide opportunities to undertake advanced study of the period. It will also provide both broad and deep preparation for subsequent doctoral research for students wishing to pursue further study.
Programme Content: St Andrews has one of the highest concentrations of early modern history specialists in the world, and students will receive a high level of specialised supervision in most fields. All students will take the core module, Approaches and Sources in Early Modern History. This will be co-taught by early modern history staff across the School in order to provide students with the widest possible exposure to research methods and to different conceptualisations of the early modern period: topics include diaries and memoirs, images as historical evidence, and travelogues. Students also select one or two optional modules taught by specialists in their
field, such as The European Renaissance, The Creation of an Atlantic World, and War, State and Society in Early Modern Europe and New Worlds. Or they may take a Directed Reading module in which they explore the literature and sources in a field of particular individual interest with an expert member of staff. Training options are also available in, for example, specific foreign languages or palaeography. 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 following fifteen months (MPhil).
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