hi all,
i've just joined this site so please forgive my initial clumsiness (i betray myself as a medievalist, don't i? much more comfortable with parchment than with laptops). i'm THRILLED to have found this website/this particular stream on it. i feel so isolated as a mediavalist (all of my friends are scary contemporary art historians who steep themselves in theory - i am very lonely in my 14th century bubble).
the information above has been very helpful. i am applying to interdisciplinary medieval studies master's programmes for (hopeful) admission in fall 2012. i am mostly applying to UK schools, but also to the university of toronto. i have a few questions relating to these; any advice would be wonderful.
a) following speakwrite: does anyone have anything to say about oxford? i should think that it would be marvellous, no? they have the bodleian, the ashmolean, actual medieval colleges... why is there so little info floating about?
i am also probably applying to the university of toronto's CMS (Centre for Medieval Studies) MA, but i hear this is VERY latin-focused. while i have begun to study latin this year, i don't know if i am ready to take the plunge and devote myself almost entirely to latin when my interest is gothic funerary monuments and the history of childhood (scattered interests, i know!)
more generally, i worry that an interdisciplinary MA might make me less 'marketable' should i decide not to move onto the doctoral level (or, more probably, should i irremediably fall into utter pauperhood). since 'medieval studies' isn't really a discipline, would i realistically be able to get a job working in a museum or something like that with such a master's, or would it be preferable to stick to my current discipline, which is art history?
i look forward to returning here - i'm sure this is going to be a great resource for me. it is already nice to know that other people are grappling with issues similar to mine.
