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The Department of ASNC is one of the smallest departments in the University, hosting 30-40 graduate students and 70-80 undergraduate students in any given year. The Anglo-Saxon & Kindred Studies Tripos was first introduced as a two-year course in 1957, renamed as the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos (still only a two-year course) in 1971, to reflect the distinctively interdisciplinary and cross-cultural identity it had developed; at last in 1992 it became possible to study the course for three years, enabling students to develop their interests and abilities to a more advanced level.
The BA in Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic at Cambridge is unique (both in Britain and Ireland and indeed in the world!) in offering a degree in which students can combine a passion for early medieval history with a love of languages and literature, while also ranging across the cultures of early Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia, in any combination they choose.
Read moreThe ASNC Department offers a 9-month research-preparation MPhil course and a three-year PhD. It has a lively graduate community with students pursuing research topics in all areas covered by the teaching and research interests of the Department, covering early medieval languages and literatures (Old English, Old Norse, Medieval Welsh, Medieval Irish, Insular Latin), the history of a comparable range of geographical areas (Anglo-Saxon England, Scandinavia, Ireland, Wales, Brittany, and Scotland), as well palaeography.
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Jen will be working on a revised version of the ASNC web […]
Cambridge Group for Irish Studies, Tuesday 27th January 2015
Professor Patrick Sims-Williams, a former lecturer in the Department will give a […]
CCASNC 2015 – Registration is now open
Registration for CCASNC 2015 is now open. Programme and Registration details, including […]
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships 2015
This notice provides information for those wishing to apply for a Leverhulme […]
CCASNC: Call for Papers
We are pleased to announce that the theme for CCASNC 2015 will […]
ASNC Alumni Newsletter 2014
To access a copy of the 2014 Alumni Newsletter, please click here.
Lecture List and Teaching Timetable 2014-15
Notice for all ASNC students: the new Lecture List and Teaching Timetable […]
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7 Feb 2015: CCASNC (Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic)
23 Feb 2015: Graduate Seminar – Dr Paul Gazzoli
02 March 2015: Graduate Seminar – Dr Chris Callow (Birmingham)
12 March 2015: HM Chadwick Lecture – Prof C McKenna
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