Doctorate in Medieval Studies

Students who have completed the following master's degrees will have direct access, without the need to take additional training:

• Master in European Medieval Studies. Images, Texts and Contexts, offered by USC.
• Students with the DEA degree obtained through the following USC programs: Galician Philology, Galician Linguistics, Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature, Studies in the History of Arts and Music, Economy and Society in History: epochs medieval and modern, German Philology, The Middle Ages. Images, Texts and Contexts, Texts and Languages of Classical Antiquity.

Other profiles:

• In the case of other types of profiles different from the above, the CAPD will evaluate each case individually. The possibility of requiring additional training from students (up to a maximum of 12 ECTS) will be considered depending on the record they accredit.
• In the case of other profiles that had not completed master's studies, an equivalence of training in research credits equal to at least those of the master's degree that gives direct access will be required, which will be 60 ECTS.

Formation activities

• Attendance at courses and seminars E5031A01
• Participation in national or international conference with scientific and organizing committee E5031A02
• Stays in specialized research centers E5031A03
• Scientific publications in relevant venues with a scientific committee and with a prior selection process E5031A04
• Participation in follow-up meetings of R&D projects directed by the teachers of the E5031A05 program

Training complements

• Methodological Foundations and New Technologies P5091101
• Medieval Europe. Historical-Social Perspective P5091102
• European Medieval Art P5091103
• Written Culture in Latin in the Middle Ages P5091104
• Medieval Literature in Vernacular Languages P5091105

Its main objective is to provide students with interdisciplinary and transversal training, so that they acquire the highest level of training at both a professional and research level. Medieval studies in Santiago have consolidated and recognized research groups at a national and international level, as well as stable and cutting-edge lines of work that will allow the most qualified students to obtain the best scholarships at the national and regional level to develop their doctoral theses.

In addition to these guarantee references, the Doctorate has collaboration agreements with select state and European centers, so that those students who wish to do so can carry out stays there that enrich their scientific career.

The fundamental objective of the Program is to recover the different aspects that medieval heritage covers with the appropriate combination of specialization and dissemination, so that doctors trained in it can face solid professional and/or research experiences, which contribute to the conservation, valorization and dissemination. of the cultural legacy of an essential historical period in the formation of European civilization.