This innovative programme gives you an in-depth knowledge of Renaissance and Early Modern culture from an interdisciplinary perspective. It also offers the opportunity to work closely with Renaissance and Early Modern collections in Edinburgh, from paintings by Botticelli or Titian, to early printed editions of Shakespeare, pioneering scientific texts, historic buildings and archival documents. Students will develop an interdisciplinary understanding of the key changes in European cultural life between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment; familiarity with the variety of materials that can be used to explore this cultural life and the changes it underwent; a critical understanding of some of the principal ways in which these changes have been conceptualised and their significance articulated by scholars, past and present; skills that will allow them to undertake the kind of independent research required in fields such as collections management and curatorship, work in historic buildings or landmarks, as well as going on to further academic research at PhD level.