MA Cultural, Intellectual and Visual History

The School of Advanced Study at the University of London brings together eight internationally renowned research institutes to form the UK's national centre for the support of researchers and the promotion of research in the humanities.

The Warburg Institute is one of the world’s leading centres for studying the interaction of ideas, images and society. It is dedicated to the survival and transmission of culture across time and space, with a special emphasis on the afterlife of antiquity. Its open-stack Library, Photographic Collection and Archive serve as an engine for interdisciplinary research, postgraduate teaching and a prestigious events and publication programme.

The Warburg Institute’s MA in Cultural, Intellectual, and Visual History (CIV) will provide you with a solid grounding in the cultural, visual and intellectual history of the Renaissance, the period from 1300 to 1650. The programme will equip you for interdisciplinary research with a particular emphasis on the reception of the classical tradition and its reinventions.

You will have the opportunity to study a wide range of topics and learn to interpret primary sources belonging to various disciplines stretching from the late Middle Ages to modernity. You will also be guided in the historically informed interpretation of images and texts. This unique programme of study examines the intertwined histories of art, philosophy, literature, science, and political and religious thought as these have developed, and as they have transformed Europe and the world.

For students who wish to undertake further study but cannot commit to a full-time master's degree, the Warburg Institute also offers a Postgraduate Certificate in Cultural, Intellectual and Visual History.

• You'll have access to the best resources for the study of Renaissance art and culture in London. Our open-stack Library, Photographic Collection and Archive are of international importance in the humanities. One of 20 libraries that changed the world, and with over 300,000 specialist volumes, it serves as an engine for interdisciplinary research and study.

• This programme also provides unparalleled staff contact hours with internationally renowned academics and curators. With a combined 20 to 40 graduate students admitted each year to our MA courses, you will join a tight community of peers that benefit from close discussion with expert tutors and small-group teaching.

• You'll have the opportunity to join students from a wide range of backgrounds and areas of study, from art history to literature, philosophy, history, anthropology, classics, and more, making for a dynamic and interdisciplinary learning environment.

• Located in Bloomsbury, you'll be placed at the centre of London’s academic and cultural hub, and you'll benefit from visits and training sessions at neighbouring institutions including the British Museum, the Government Art Collection, the Wellcome Trust and the British Library, and further afield the V&A, the Dulwich Picture Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and the Courtauld Gallery.  

• Warburg students are part of an illustrious tradition of international and interdisciplinary scholarship. Prominent scholars who have been associated with the Institute and Library include Aby Warburg, Ernst Cassirer, Erwin Panofsky, Edgar Wind, Dame Frances Yates, Ernst Gombrich, Michael Baxandall, Svetlana Alpers, Carlo Ginzburg, Keith Thomas, Georges Didi-Huberman, Giorgio Agamben, Lisa Jardine, Anthony Grafton, Umberto Eco, and many, many more.

• Because we are a relatively small institute, we also are able to provide a welcoming and supportive academic community. Learning and research is a pleasure, and we are dedicated to ensuring that you feel at home and are able to advance in, and enjoy, your area of study.

The programme combines the study of historical texts and their cultural contexts with an introduction to current academic debate and high-level linguistic, archival and research skills. You'll receive rigorous training in:

• Intellectual and Cultural History of the Renaissance, dealing with such issues as the emergence of humanism; the image of Rome in early modern Italian city-states; the religious backdrop of the Renaissance, including papal politics and the Reformation; the Arabic translation of Greek texts, Islamic learning, and the Latin translation of Arabic texts; maps and visions of the earth and universe; images and practical methods of scholarship in various institutions; scholasticism and its challenges; political philosophy from Augustine and Aquinas to Bodin and Hobbes; traditions of utopian literature; alchemy, magic, and the roots of modern science; exploration, conquest, and colonialism and their impact on views of humanity; and much else.
• Methods and Techniques of Cultural and Intellectual History. The programme will increase your understanding of methods for analysing literary, philosophical, religious and scientific texts of the early modern period, including close readings as well as biographical, political, and cultural contextualization.
• Current scholarship and professional practice in these areas as well as new and emerging areas of research and scholarship.
• Primary source materials in original languages and translation for high-level research

The programme is taught through classes and supervision by members of the academic staff of The Warburg Institute. The teaching staff of the Warburg Institute are leading academics in their fields who have published widely and are involved with research related to the topics they teach. Staff members’ expertise and current research feed directly into the teaching they provide, allowing you to develop the critical skills for academic research and creative independent projects.

To find out more about the course, download our programme specification. 

Modules are taught by academics at the Warburg Institute. While the temporal and conceptual anchor of the programme is the Renaissance, its overall scope stretches from the medieval era to modernity. It emphasises the history of philosophy, ethics, religion and politics along with the cultural, intellectual, and visual dimensions of civilisations, both drawing on and foregrounding the interdisciplinary strengths of the Institute.

You'll take three core modules and two option modules. The core module on Language and Palaeographical Studies includes training at all levels in European languages which includes Latin, as well as palaeography training in one chosen language. Finally, you'll have the opportunity to conduct an independent research project through the dissertation, which is completed in the summer term under the guidance of a supervisor from the Warburg. 

The programme is supported by an unassessed Methods and Techniques of Scholarship module that will introduce you to the nuts and bolts of the historiography and methods of scholarly work in early modern cultural history. It will prepare you, through a term of workshops, to choose, develop, and research your dissertation topic.

The course is examined as follows:

1. Reviving the Past – 4,000 word essay
2. Art History and Renaissance Culture: Image to Action – 4,000 word essay
3. Language and Palaeographic Studies - examinations in palaeography and languages
4. Two optional modules – 4,000 word essays
5. Dissertation - 15,000 words

Mode of study

12 months full-time | 24 months part-time | 36 months part-time plus

Modules

The availability of a module is subject to change.

Core modules: terms 1 and 2

AHM220-01 Reviving the Past

Reviving the Past” introduces students to foundational knowledge and research skills for the study of the cultural, intellectual, and visual history of Europe, with a focus on the period comprised between the late Middle Ages and early modernity. It will provide students with a firm grasp on key elements of the transmission, renewal, and transformations of the classical tradition while introducing them to theory and method in intellectual and cultural history.

The module is divided into three main units. The first unit explores the concern with the legacy of antiquity spreading across Western Europe in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. The second unit focuses on the complex cultural and intellectual changes brought about at the turn of the sixteenth century by the great geographical discoveries and by movements of religious reform. The third and final unit investigates engagements with ancient science in the seventeenth century and follows the constitution of a new, globally organized vision of the earth and cosmos into the early nineteenth century.

Students will become familiar with a range of specific historical cases and dynamics by making use of both primary and secondary texts in the Warburg Library; and they will learn to problematize keywords such as “medieval”, “Renaissance”, “Western”, “nature”, “culture”, “civilization”, “modern”, “transmission” and “translation” and their implications for contemporary understandings of the past. Throughout, students will learn through a combination of lectures and discussions, and through active engagement with authentic primary sources and relevant scholarly work.

AHM250-01 Art History and Renaissance Culture: Image to Action

Image to Action examines the role of images in Renaissance culture. Each week, we will study one of several different types of imagery prevalent in the Renaissance and early-modern period – allegory, portraiture, the diagram, etc. – and explore the subjects and themes depicted in relation to ideas, social attitudes, and artistic practices that prevailed when they were made and circulated. 

This module supports the more specialised and applied modules of all MA and PG Cert strands and teaches key skills of research, analysis – particularly of visual material – and writing to enhance students’s ability to complete those units successfully. It also has a historiographic and methodological dimension: students will study the iconological methods pioneered by Aby Warburg and developed by scholars associated with him and with the Warburg institute, along with others. More than anything, it will provide students with the tools to think through images, and the roles images play in our understanding and study of Renaissance society and culture.  

AHM400-01 Methods and Techniques of Scholarship (unassessed)

The main goal of the module is to introduce you to the nuts and bolts of scholarly work in late medieval and early modern cultural history (broadly conceived), and to prepare you for undertaking original research in this field.

In the Autumn Term ('Reading History'), our team of instructors will introduce you to a series of seminal articles and studies on different 'objects' (text, artworks, concepts, problems), showing you how each object can be - and has been - approached from a variety of perspectives. This will help you form a broad sense of the field of cultural history, its historical development, different methodologies, and open possibilities. We will also have skills-oriented sessions on topics such as reading scholarship, using and writing book reviews, conducting bibliographical research, and writing in an effective academic style.

The Spring Term (‘Writing History’) is a dissertation prep seminar that will guide you through the process of choosing, developing, and researching a topic for your final dissertation. Activities will range from tutorials to individual and small-group work to self-reflection and journal-keeping. In the final sessions of term you will each give a short oral presentation on your proposed dissertation topic. Throughout the workshop the focus will be on creating a supportive atmosphere where you feel comfortable sharing your work and learn how to give and receive feedback in an interdisciplinary context.

Language and Palaeographical Studies

AHM410-01    English Palaeography

This course is designed to help students analyse handwritten vernacular textual sources for the late medieval and early modern period. No previous training in palaeography is expected. Students will be introduced to the basic principles of palaeography and the key scripts used to produce manuscripts and documents in the British Isles between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, with an emphasis on developing the necessary skills to accurately transcribe unseen texts.

The module is run as a series of weekly seminars of 2 hours each. It will be taught using handouts, and homework will be set weekly. The module is assessed by an in-person exam, held in Term 3. There will also be a series of informal tests through the two terms. An in-person mock exam will also be organised.

AHM420-01    Italian Palaeography

This course is designed to help students analyse handwritten vernacular textual sources for the Renaissance period. No previous training in palaeography is expected, but students should have a solid grasp of modern Italian grammar and vocabulary and, ideally, some familiarity with the Renaissance language. Students will be introduced to the basic principles of palaeography and the key scripts used to produce manuscripts and documents in Italy between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, with an emphasis on developing the necessary skills to accurately transcribe unseen texts.

The module is run as a series of weekly seminars of 2 hours each. It will be taught using handouts, and homework will be set weekly. The module is assessed by an in-person exam, held in Term 3. There will also be a series of informal tests through the two terms. An in-person mock exam will also be organised.

AHM430-01    Italian (Beginners)

This course is aimed at students with no previous training in Italian. It focuses on grammar and comprehension, with the aim of developing students’ ability to read and translate Italian-language scholarship. By the end of the course, students should have achieved competence in Italian to an intermediate level and will be ready to begin reading Renaissance primary texts in modernised editions.

The module is run as a series of two-hour weekly online seminars. It will be taught using handouts and overhead slides, and homework will be set weekly. The module is assessed by: (a) an online take-home assessment held in Term 2 and (b) an in-person exam, held in Term 3. There will also be a series of informal tests through the two terms. An in-person mock exam will also be organised.

AHM440-01    Italian (Intermediate)

This course is aimed at students with some previous experience of Italian, though it is also open to beginners who are competent in Latin or another Romance language (e.g. French or Spanish). It entails a full review of modern Italian grammar and introduces a wide range of texts, with the aim of enabling students to read both Italian-language scholarship and modernised editions of Renaissance primary texts. By the end of the course, students should have achieved competence in Italian to an advanced level and will be ready to begin reading Renaissance texts in the original language.

The module is run as a series of two-hour weekly online seminars. It will be taught using handouts and overhead slides, and homework will be set weekly. The module is assessed by: (a) an online take-home assessment held in Term 2 and (b) an in-person exam, held in Term 3. There will also be a series of informal tests through the two terms. An in-person mock exam will also be organised.

AHM450-01    Italian (Advanced)

This course is aimed at students with a good grasp of modern Italian grammar and vocabulary (A-level equivalent or beyond). It will focus on the comprehension and translation of a wide variety of texts from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, while also introducing key differences between the modern and Renaissance languages in terms of grammar, syntax, vocabulary and usage. By the end of the course, students should be confident readers of Renaissance Italian and ready to tackle unedited, technical and regionally inflected texts.

The module is run as a series of weekly seminars of 1.5 hours each. It will be taught using handouts, and homework will be set weekly. The module is assessed by: (a) an online take-home assessment held in Term 2 and (b) an in-person exam, held in Term 3. There will also be a series of informal tests through the two terms. An in-person mock exam will also be organised.

AHM460-01    Latin (Beginners)

This course is aimed at students with no (or very little) previous Latin training. It focuses on grammar and vocabulary, and on the forms commonly used in texts for the medieval and early modern period. A key aim is to equip students with a basic understanding of the architecture of the language and to help develop confidence in reading longer passages in Latin. By the end of the course students should have achieved competency in the Latin language to an intermediate level.

The module is run as a series of two-hour weekly online seminars. It will be taught using handouts and overhead slides, and homework will be set weekly. The module is assessed by: (a) an online take-home assessment held in Term 2 and (b) an in -person exam, held in Term 3. There will also be a series of informal tests through the two terms. An in-person mock exam will also be organised.

AHM470-01    Latin (Intermediate)
This course is aimed at students with some previous experience of Latin. It entails a full review of grammar and syntax, and a central objective is to encourage students to read – with greater confidence – a range of late Medieval and Renaissance texts. By the end of the course students should have achieved competency in the Latin language to an advanced level.

The module is run as a series of two-hour weekly online seminars. It will be taught using handouts and overhead slides, and homework will be set weekly. The module is assessed by: (a) an online take-home assessment held in Term 2 and (b) an in-person exam, held in Term 3. There will also be a series of informal tests through the two terms. An in-person mock exam will also be organised.

AHM480-01    Latin (Advanced)
This course is aimed at students with a good grasp of Latin vocabulary, grammar and syntax (A-level equivalent or beyond). It will focus on the translation of texts from the medieval and early modern period, revising grammar and syntax along the way. Key aims are to equip students with a deeper grasp of the language, its scope, evolution and idioms, and to inculcate a greater confidence in the translation of Latin. It also offers an exposure to a wide variety of Latin texts and forms.

The module is run as a series of weekly seminars of 1.5 hours each. It will be taught using handouts, and homework will be set weekly. The module is assessed by: (a) an online take-home assessment held in Term 2 and (b) an in-person exam, held in Term 3. There will also be a series of informal tests through the two terms. An in-person mock exam will also be organised. 

Option modules: term 2 (two to be chosen)

Students will be able to choose from five or more modules on a specific topic. These vary from year to year, but have included such topics as “Renaissance Political Thought”, “Religion and Society in Renaissance Italy”, “Renaissance Sculpture”, “Cosmological Images” and others. 

AHM280-01    Religion and Society in Renaissance Italy

The course takes the religious history of Italy as the point of departure for an in-depth investigation of the significant social and political changes that took place between 1300 and 1650. From the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance politics and religion were inextricably bound together. Religion was expressed both in rituals – liturgies, performances, pilgrimages – and in texts and works of art, thus forming a significant dimension of Italian culture and scholarship. The focus of the course is on the primary sources (hagiographical, legal, literary, architectural and cartographical) which provide evidence for the reconstruction of religious customs and habits of mind and for the understanding of political events.    The aim of this module is to identify and explain the significance of religious culture in late medieval, Renaissance and early modern Italy, providing a basic understanding of the interactions between politics, social life, cultural expression, and religion. From the late Middle Ages to the early modern period politics and religion were inextricably bound together, the Church was involved in temporal matters, and religious beliefs and practices were powerful motivating factors in contemporary policy making; religion was expressed both in rituals and in texts and works of art and formed a significant dimension of Italian culture and scholarship. Students are encouraged to develop a sound knowledge and critical understanding of Italian cultural history through the discussion of specific themes: the relation between pagan philosophy and Christian faith, Church and Empire, Church and Papacy, faith and space, sex and sanctity, Islam and Christianity, Jews and Christians, Church Councils and spiritual renewal, secular and religious utopias. Religion and Society in Renaissance Italy aims to critically assess the development of religious thought and practice by looking at texts and works of art, reaching – beyond factual information – a critical and unbiased assessment of the past and its complexities.

AHM230-01    Cosmological Images: Representing the Universe

This course will study cosmograms: concrete objects which represent the universe as a whole. It will explore connections between art and science, including the intellectual function of images and the aesthetics of representing the cosmos and knowledge about it, in science, religion, and folk traditions. Students will be provided methods for studying such objects in action, as part of ritual practices, projects of knowledge, and political programs.

One aim of the course will be to trace the changing form and content of cosmograms from the medieval through modern period, especially with regard to scientific images. The course will trace the gradual emergence of a cosmology said to be mechanical, materialist, and objective, and its interactions and oppositions with other views of the cosmos. By exploring these conflicts and controversies through a focus on cosmograms, we will ground these longstanding issues of intellectual history in concrete contexts and the making of objects and images.

AHM290-01    Renaissance Political Thought from Erasmus to Campanella

This module will explore a range of canonical and non-canonical political texts from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, contextualizing them historically and situating them in a longer tradition of moral and political philosophy that stretches back to Classical Antiquity and forward to modern times. We will also discuss methodological questions regarding their interpretation and engage critically with seminal scholarship in this area. Specific topics will include: what counts as a ""political"" text?; the reception and transformation of classical theories in new historical contexts (e.g. movements of religious reform; the rise of nation-states; the ""discovery"" of America and the beginnings of the colonial race); main trends (e.g. the rise of political ""realism"" vs. ""utopianism"") and debates (e.g., around the best form of government, resistance rights, religious toleration, just war, and the role of women in society).

AHM380-01    Renaissance Sculpture in the Expanded Field

With a title that borrows from Rosalind Krauss’s seminal 1979 article ‘Sculpture in the Expanded Field’, this module examines Renaissance sculpture according to broad parameters to think about how images and other media (such as drawing, print, architecture, paint) were fundamental to the creation and reception of sculptural objects. Together we will explore drawing and modelling in the artist workshop; the adaption and migration of sculpture into painting; the role of sculpture in the rituals of religious life – from mobile, polychromed crucifixes to immersive pilgrimage sites such as the Sacro Monte at Varallo; as well as sculpture within the framework of society and culture: large scale public work, portrait busts, installations within the villa garden and, finally, ephemeral sculptures made for festivities and banquets.

In doing so, we will encounter the famous, at times monumental, artworks by sculptors such as Donatello, Michelangelo and Giambologna, but we will also consider more unfamiliar objects and materials: life-size holy dolls, votive wax figures, sculptures made from food and the colossal monsters of the Sacro Bosco at Bomarzo. We will examine how sculpture was discussed in a range of primary sources, from artistic treatise to the fictional Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, alongside recent scholarship that engages with materiality and Renaissance making practices. It will become apparent that sculpture was a varied, experimental artform, which played a key role in the embodied practices of Renaissance life.

AHM100-01    The World of the Book in the European Renaissance

The aim of the module is to provide an understanding of the culture of the book in Renaissance Europe—a time and place that saw the invention of printing, the growth of both private and public libraries, the development of bibliographical protocols, the advent of the humanist printer, and new techniques for active reading. It also saw the beginnings of colonialism and conquest, cultural revolutions, religious reformations, and profound social upheavals. What role did the book play in these changes—or did it? How can it help us to understand the changing world of the European Renaissance? Through seminars, collection visits, and practical training at a historically appropriate printing press, this module will offer an overview of the history and the historiography of the book, with a special focus on the material aspects of production, dissemination, and use. 

AHM050-01 The Classical Renaissance: Greco-Roman Rediscovery, Reception and Resurrection

This module places the spotlight on a major and vital dimension of the Renaissance: the revival of the classical tradition. We will begin by considering the quest for and rediscovery of ancient texts, and their subsequent diffusion and assimilation into humanist curricula across Europe. Students will be encouraged to consider how classical literature, rather than superseding a largely scholastic and Christian framework, was integrated into it, and also the extent to which the Church Fathers and medieval writers had already laid some of the groundwork for a much more extensive phenomenon of absorption. Students will be invited to take into account developments such as standardization and canon formation, but also regional and chronological trends.

The process of reception will be assessed from a number of different perspectives, but always in way that prioritizes full contextualization and the complexities of textual transmission. Areas of reception that will feature in the course include: the concept of imitatio (itself an ancient practice and idea), generic organization, literary modes (such as metre), the use of prose vs poetry, and preferences for Latin or Greek texts. The reception of certain classical authors whose influence was particularly profound will also be charted through case-studies, and these authors will include Cicero, Virgil, Ovid, and Plutarch. In parallel, students will be encouraged to explore the impact of ancient works that are in modern times less familiar but that were regularly consulted in the early modern period, such as the output of Late Antiquity. Another complicating factor will be the repackaging and mediation of classical literature in repositories which meant that early modern writers did not always need to return to the original source. A further key consideration in our discussions about reception will be Christian belief systems and also the Reformation, and a significant part of the course will be devoted to the question of the relationship between paganism and Christianity, and the degree of harmonization that was possible between the two. The course will further cover a range of areas in which reception occurred, from the world of art to the realms of diplomacy and nation-building.

The importance of the languages of Latin and Greek will constitute a further focus. As the primary vehicles for classical learning, we will assess the extent to which Greco-Roman sources enjoyed a hegemony even as the production of vernacular literature burgeoned. At the same time, students will be asked to reflect on the ways in which the growing vernaculars were able to harness classicizing approaches in ways that might be yet more inventive. A major theme of the module will be issues of bilingualism and multilingualism, and students will be introduced to macaronic texts and also tracts which expressly confront linguistic choice.

AHM060-01 Art and Nature in Northern Europe (1500-1700)

This course examines the connections between the visual image and understandings of nature in early modernity. It concentrates on northern Europe (primarily the Netherlands, Britain, Germany and France) and its colonies in Asia and North and South America, exploring a series of case studies that focus on depictions of land, plants, animals and insects, and on the entanglement of these phenomena with human beings. The visual materials will include works in artistic genres such as landscape and still life painting, but also artefacts such as maps, travel books, automata, and anatomical and ethnographic depictions that challenge the modern distinction between artistic and scientific images. Rather than situating these materials within frameworks of art and collecting narrowly defined, the course asks how they were also connected to changes in social life, to widening patterns of trade and exploration, and to developments in dietetics, medicine, philosophy and other forms of knowledge.

The course begins by considering period understandings of nature, and their relationship to categories such as the human, the creatural, the supernatural and the preternatural. We will also think about how ecocritical and ecological approaches might deepen a historical investigation of our materials. The main run of classes will explore the interwoven empirical, political and symbolic meanings conveyed by early modern images of nature. Possible topics include: Dürer’s watercolour nature studies; Bruegel’s depictions of the months and seasons; early modern microscopy; visual cultures of human and animal anatomy; sottobosco painting; the early modern ménagerie; hunting scenes and gamepiece still life; Altdorfer’s depictions of the German forest; and European artists’ responses to the environments of the Atlantic world, Asia and the Arctic.

Dissertation: term 3

The opportunity to conduct an independent research project utilising the world-renowned resourced at the Institute under the guidance of an academic from the Warburg.

The normal minimum entrance requirement is a First or Upper Second Class Honours degree from a university in the UK, or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.

We will consider applications from candidates who do not meet the formal academic requirements but who offer alternative qualifications and/or relevant experience. 

English is the language of instruction and applicants are required to demonstrate an appropriate level of proficiency.

Find out more about our entry requirements.

For more information on how to apply, including deadlines and the documentation you will need to provide on the application form, visit our How to Apply page.

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In addition to key skills relating to scholarship and curatorial practice, you'll also acquire key transferable skills that will be useful in any workplace. These include:

• Writing in different ways for different readerships
• Researching effectively
• Presentation skills
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Critical reading and thinking
• Time management
• Project management and planning

Many Warburg alumni have gone on to pursue PhD study at the Warburg Institute or other leading Universities and cultural institutions across the globe, including the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the Bayerische Akademie, the National Library (Argentina) and the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, UCL, Warwick, York, Princeton, Notre Dame, Yeshiva (New York), Basel, Copenhagen, Padua, and La Sapienza (Rome).

Other students successfully pursue careers in the worlds of publishing, libraries, editing, writing, and various domains of the cultural sector and other professions in the UK and elsewhere.

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