SUMMER PROGRAMME

Courses

Tutorial Groups

Tutorial group courses offer an opportunity for detailed study within areas in which CMRS specializes. They meet twice a week for a one-hour session. Students are required to submit written work in the form of weekly essays, and are expected to be active participants in each week’s discussions. The tutorial group allows a focus on each individual’s work with no more than 5 students per tutor.  Students select one tutorial from the range of options.
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Integral Seminar
Medieval Worlds

While the tutorial groups explore subjects in depth, the Integral Seminar allows for a more discursive reflection on the period and its enduring significance in the development of western culture. Students gather each week to discuss, under the guidance of a tutor, salient questions and issues arising from their reading of a key text. In so doing they will widen their appreciation of the Middle Ages as a whole in a supportive, stimulating atmosphere. The three texts provide a multidisciplinary framework for discussing the whole period from late Antiquity to the dawning of the Renaissance. Each work was groundbreaking on its publication, and continues to shape scholarly understanding today.
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Field Trips

There are three field trips outside Oxford to places of historical importance, each under the guidance of a tutor with specialized knowledge of the sites.  Field trips are an important part of the academic programmes, and all students are expected to attend.
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Interdisciplinary Lectures

To complete the programme there will be two lectures each week, attended by all students.  Linked to the subjects of tutorials, these lectures will be given by Oxford scholars and distinguished visiting academics.  Thus students will gain a complementary deepening of their understanding, in particular, of important areas of research.