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Part IB

Option A and Option B

All students take five papers in their second year, which is known as Part IB. As in your first year, the range of choices depends on whether you started Russian at Cambridge as a beginner or as a post A-level student. You can also embark on a course in Ukrainian Studies or Polish Studies. As in your first year, you still have to work on two languages offered in two different Departments. However, the IB course is more flexible in that it allows you to choose - within limits - how many of your papers should be from the Slavonic Department or from another department in the Faculty. The overall structure of Part IB in the MML Faculty is described here.

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What would it take to fake a sonnet by the French Renaissance poet Louise Labé?

2 July 2025

Timothy Chesters weighs in on the controversy over the authorship of the Oeuvres de Louise Labé Lyonnaise (1555). Twenty years ago a prominent French critic, Mireille Huchon, caused uproar by alleging that Olivier de Magny, a male poet traditionally believed to have been Labé’s lover, forged her poems as a joke. Since then...

Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland

15 June 2025

With Seekers of Wonder, Elena Sottilotta offers the first comparative study of women’s manifold roles in the collection of Italian and Irish folklore and fairy tales between 1870 and 1920. Sottilotta views the often-overlooked work of these women from an interdisciplinary perspective, considering both the politics and...

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