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Meanwhile, my proposed PhD is on the afterlife of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia in England, Scotland, and Wales in the later medieval period, and I'll be looking at how these countries used the Arthurian narrative for their own nationalist ambitions. I'll be staying in Cardiff as I have been lucky enough to secure funding.

Welcome!

Sounds like an exciting project! The manuscript that I'm studying for my thesis is one of the ones that interpolates bits and pieces of Geoffrey of Monmouth for it's own purposes along somewhat similar lines to what you're looking at, so I'm sure you'll probably come across it at some point.

[...] My dissertation will be on national foundation myths and how these influence the structures of Arthurian 'history'; I'll be looking at Brutus of Troy and the linear history in insular texts against the myth of the Holy Grail in continental cycles, and then looking at how these emerge in the later English tradition.

Meanwhile, my proposed PhD is on the afterlife of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia in England, Scotland, and Wales in the later medieval period, and I'll be looking at how these countries used the Arthurian narrative for their own nationalist ambitions. I'll be staying in Cardiff as I have been lucky enough to secure funding.

That does sound really interesting - I know bugger all about the medieval period but narratives of nationalism are right up my alley

My dissertation will be on national foundation myths and how these influence the structures of Arthurian 'history'; I'll be looking at Brutus of Troy and the linear history in insular texts against the myth of the Holy Grail in continental cycles, and then looking at how these emerge in the later English tradition.

Meanwhile, my proposed PhD is on the afterlife of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia in England, Scotland, and Wales in the later medieval period, and I'll be looking at how these countries used the Arthurian narrative for their own nationalist ambitions. I'll be staying in Cardiff as I have been lucky enough to secure funding.

Thanks to you both .



My dissertation will be on national foundation myths and how these influence the structures of Arthurian 'history'; I'll be looking at Brutus of Troy and the linear history in insular texts against the myth of the Holy Grail in continental cycles, and then looking at how these emerge in the later English tradition.

Meanwhile, my proposed PhD is on the afterlife of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia in England, Scotland, and Wales in the later medieval period, and I'll be looking at how these countries used the Arthurian narrative for their own nationalist ambitions. I'll be staying in Cardiff as I have been lucky enough to secure funding.

Hi all,

I lurk round TSR occasionally, so thought I'd formally introduce myself on this thread since my MA dissertation period is rapidly approaching, and I'm a little apprehensive about starting my PhD in October when most people move on and its just me and my thesis o_O.

Saying that, I'm not sure introducing myself when I have two essays to be getting on with is the best move, heh XD.

Thanks to you both .



My dissertation will be on national foundation myths and how these influence the structures of Arthurian 'history'; I'll be looking at Brutus of Troy and the linear history in insular texts against the myth of the Holy Grail in continental cycles, and then looking at how these emerge in the later English tradition.

Meanwhile, my proposed PhD is on the afterlife of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia in England, Scotland, and Wales in the later medieval period, and I'll be looking at how these countries used the Arthurian narrative for their own nationalist ambitions. I'll be staying in Cardiff as I have been lucky enough to secure funding.

Hi all,

I lurk round TSR occasionally, so thought I'd formally introduce myself on this thread since my MA dissertation period is rapidly approaching, and I'm a little apprehensive about starting my PhD in October when most people move on and its just me and my thesis o_O.

Saying that, I'm not sure introducing myself when I have two essays to be getting on with is the best move, heh XD.

My dissertation will be on national foundation myths and how these influence the structures of Arthurian 'history'; I'll be looking at Brutus of Troy and the linear history in insular texts against the myth of the Holy Grail in continental cycles, and then looking at how these emerge in the later English tradition.

Meanwhile, my proposed PhD is on the afterlife of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia in England, Scotland, and Wales in the later medieval period, and I'll be looking at how these countries used the Arthurian narrative for their own nationalist ambitions. I'll be staying in Cardiff as I have been lucky enough to secure funding.

To be honest, a PhD isn't any different to other big life changes. So you can't really avoid it whether you do a PhD or just get a job. In all cases your friends move on, and you're forced to establish new networks. Also it becomes harder because undergrad and Masters are - I think - unusual life situations in which a lot of people are put together in a situation where they share similar experiences/stage of life/have a lot of disposable time on their hands and are all open to and seeking out friendships.
In more normal 'grown up' situations, people have a lot less time, you're surrounded by people who are at different stages/walks of life, and who are not necessarily keen to invest in new relationships.

But yeh... you'll adjust and find new ways of making friends and establishing networks. And anyway, you'd have to adapt to that no matter what you did.

Welcome

I am not a student any more But I am a graduate

You dissertation and PhD sound amazing. I looked into doing an MA in medieval studies at the end of my BA, but it was unfortunately not financially viable.

Hi there, and contratulations on getting a funded place at Cardiff, that sounds great! I tangled with some Middle English Arthurian texts (Malory, and the Stanzaic and Alliterative Mortes ('Mortes'?)) during my undergraduate dissertation. (I was interested in penance and selfhood in non/less-introspective texts, since normally people seem to go looking for that stuff in Margery Kempe, the Pearl-poet &c &c.) I'm not really on top of the Arthurian tradition as a whole, though. Good luck with the masters dissertation!

Oh, that sounds like an interesting angle to explore some of those texts from - no doubt you dabbled with the Grail quest and such? The Alliterative Morte is probably one of my favourite Middle English texts as well .

Nice to meet more medieval enthusiasts around here. If you do get the chance to pursue medieval studies at postgrad then I definitely recommend it .

Oh, that sounds like an interesting angle to explore some of those texts from - no doubt you dabbled with the Grail quest and such? The Alliterative Morte is probably one of my favourite Middle English texts as well .

Sadly I think that time has past. Any postgrad studies I do now will have to be based around the teaching profession. I have actually recently developed quite an interest in numeracy development, which is very odd because I found Maths incredibly hard at school! Although maybe that's why...

I will just have to spend the rest of my life fondly remembering the Grail myths module I did in final year

On the BBC news website there is an article with the title "Scientists 'read dreams' using brain scans". Exciting, right? Apart from the fact they only used 3 participants, identified "broad categories" and only made correct predictions 60% of the time

(All hail the rise of popular neuro*******s!)