Course Director

Professor Peter Marshall

The Warwick History Department is recognised internationally as a centre for innovative and influential research and is consistently ranked among the best history departments in the UK. Religion and society were inextricably linked in the structures and culture of early modern Europe. This MA programme explores religious, social and cultural developments in the context of the Protestant Reformation and the strains created by soaring prices and population, and heightened social mobility. Warwick has a particularly strong concentration of Renaissance and early modern scholars and this well-established MA has been described by one external examiner as 'the best of its kind in the UK'.

Students can choose to focus on English or wider European history, or combine the two. The Library's extensive holdings of archival material on microfilm, and online resources such as EEBO (Early English Books Online), ECCO (Eighteenth-Century Collections Online), and The Old Bailey and London Bridewell records, enable students to access a wide range of primary sources during the course of the MA.

The Programme:

• Core Module (Term 1): Approaches to Early Modernity 1500-1750 
• Historical Research Core Module : Theory, Skill and Method
• One Optional Module (Term 2) : Please see Optional Modules Available
• Dissertation : (20,000 words)

Optional Modules Available:

• English Religious Life in the Sixteenth Century
  Tutor: Professor Peter Marshall
• Society and Religion in Sixteenth-Century France 
  Tutor: Dr Penny Roberts
• Violence in Early Modern Europe
  Tutors: Dr Jonathan Davies / Dr Penny Roberts
• Corruption: Concept and Practice in Britain and its Empire, c.1600-1835
  Tutor: Professor Mark Knights 

Information on modules which might be available on 2012/13 will be published as soon as possible; to see which modules were on offer in 2011/2012, please click here.

Please note: Not all modules may be available every year.

Whether a proposed module runs or not is subject to student demand. Insufficient student numbers may mean students are asked to transfer course modules.

For a list of modules run in previous academic years please see our archive.

How to Apply:

To apply for the MA in Religious, Social and Cultural History, 1500-1750, you can do so via the University's Online Application Form

For more information on Admissions in general please see the History Admissions page.