You will undertake a research project and produce a dissertation which is submitted on an assigned date in mid-August. HTML HTML The final element of the programme is a 15,000 word dissertation (60 credits), which students complete during the summer months. This is an independent, primary source-based research project supervised by one or more members of academic staff. Students have considerable freedom to define their own dissertation project — so long as it is a feasible project that one or more staff members have the expertise to supervise. Example dissertation topics Past dissertation topics have included: Isauria from 350–410 Polemic in the Work of St Romanos the Melodist Episcopal Authority in Northern Gaul during the Firth to Eighth Centuries The Sources of Shi’ism Sicilian Calcitic Ware during the Eighth Century The First Historic Plague Pandemic (541–750 AD): A Re-Examination of the Late Antique Climatic Context The Late Byzantine Imperial Portrait in the Provinces and at Foreign Courts Monetary Exchanges at the Tenth Century Byzantine Court: Inflows and Outlows during Promotions and Appointments in De Cerimoniis Early Umayyad Seapower Decoration in the Aniconic Churches of Byzantine Naxos Byzantine–Chinese Relations in the Sixth Century Byzantium Seen through Western Chronicles of the Sixth and Seventh Century The Relationship between the Emperor and his Magistri Militum ‘Unmindful of what they were born’: Changing Conceptions of Homosexual Behaviour in Roman North Africa, c.200–c.430 The 3rd Marquess of Bute – Byzantine Englightenment This article was published on 2024-08-01
