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  • 2025 Summer
    • Temples up close: a tour of the great sites of Roman religion
    • Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: The City of Rome from 300-800
    • The Appian Way
    • Women on the Roman Frontiers
    • The Lost City of Ugarit
    • Celtic Saints – Between pious legends and archaeology
    • SILKROAD STUDIES:   The Turks – from the Mongolian Nomads to Empire Builders
    • Silkroad Studies: The archaeology of the Sultanate of Rum
    • Summer Novel Discussion Group
    • Isaiah 24-39
    • The Calendar- Telling the Story of Time
  • 2025 Spring Term
    • News from Ancient Rome
    • Beyond the columns: a closer look at Roman temples
    • The Jewish War
    • From Celsus to Galen – Roman writers on healers and medication and their archaeology
    • SILKROAD STUDIES: The People of the Steppes from Scythians to Sarmatians
    • Ancient Mesopotamia
    • Ovid in Pontus – The poems of old age
    • LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION AND PLINY THE ELDER
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Beethoven’s ‘middle period’ Chamber Music
    • Novel Discussion Group 2024/5
    • Isaiah 1-23
  • The Classical World
    • Temples up close: a tour of the great sites of Roman religion
    • The Appian Way
    • Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: The City of Rome from 300-800
    • News from Ancient Rome
    • Beyond the columns: a closer look at Roman temples
    • The Jewish War
  • World Archaeology
    • The Lost City of Ugarit
    • Celtic Saints – Between pious legends and archaeology
    • Silkroad Studies: The archaeology of the Sultanate of Rum
    • SILKROAD STUDIES: The People of the Steppes from Scythians to Sarmatians
    • Ancient Mesopotamia
  • Art History
    • Silkroad Studies: The archaeology of the Sultanate of Rum
    • Temples up close: a tour of the great sites of Roman religion
    • Beyond the columns: a closer look at Roman temples
    • News from Ancient Rome
  • Film and Media Studies
  • History other than Ancient History
    • The Calendar- Telling the Story of Time
    • Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: The City of Rome from 300-800
    • SILKROAD STUDIES:   The Turks – from the Mongolian Nomads to Empire Builders
    • Celtic Saints – Between pious legends and archaeology
    • The Appian Way
    • SILKROAD STUDIES: The People of the Steppes from Scythians to Sarmatians
  • Latin
    • Ovid in Pontus – The poems of old age
    • LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION AND PLINY THE ELDER
  • Literature
    • Summer Novel Discussion Group
    • Novel Discussion Group 2024/5
  • Music
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Schubert’s Chamber Music: beyond the quartet
  • Theology and Religious Studies
    • The Calendar- Telling the Story of Time
    • Isaiah 24-39
    • Isaiah 1-23
    • The Jewish War
    • Ancient Mesopotamia
  • The MANCENT conferences
    • 7th MANCENT Roman Army Conference: The Roman Army – what survives?
    • 6th MANCENT Roman Army Conference: Living with the Roman Army
      • ‘It’s this wretched country’: Roman Britain on Screen
    • 5th Roman MANCENT Conference: The Roman army and Mining in Scotland and elsewhere
    • 2017 MANCENT conference: Rivers, Harbours and the Roman Army
    • Producing for the Legion or Production by the Legion?
      • Conference Summaries 24 Sept 2016
    • Roman Gask Project lecture 2020 -Thousand years in Glenesk, the changing life of a Scottish glen.
  • The MANCENT blog
    • 31 Dec 2024: Welcome to a new year and the festival of Janus
    • Blog 30 Sept 24: Why talk about the Silkroad in China?
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Comparing Notes
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Haydn’s String Quartets
    • Roman villas in Gaul and Germany: the homes of the invaders and fashion victims?
    • What has a German writer to do with the Grand Tour
    • Roman Britain on screen
    • MANCENT blog: A Chinese Garden in North Staffordshire
    • Why talk about Silkroad in the Indian Ocean?
    • Thinking about Religion in Roman Britain
    • MANCENT 2023 Programme now out
    • Why study Greek and Roman Myths by Tony Keen
    • Today we are 12 years old!
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  • 2025 Summer
    • Temples up close: a tour of the great sites of Roman religion
    • Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: The City of Rome from 300-800
    • The Appian Way
    • Women on the Roman Frontiers
    • The Lost City of Ugarit
    • Celtic Saints – Between pious legends and archaeology
    • SILKROAD STUDIES:   The Turks – from the Mongolian Nomads to Empire Builders
    • Silkroad Studies: The archaeology of the Sultanate of Rum
    • Summer Novel Discussion Group
    • Isaiah 24-39
    • The Calendar- Telling the Story of Time
  • 2025 Spring Term
    • News from Ancient Rome
    • Beyond the columns: a closer look at Roman temples
    • The Jewish War
    • From Celsus to Galen – Roman writers on healers and medication and their archaeology
    • SILKROAD STUDIES: The People of the Steppes from Scythians to Sarmatians
    • Ancient Mesopotamia
    • Ovid in Pontus – The poems of old age
    • LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION AND PLINY THE ELDER
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Beethoven’s ‘middle period’ Chamber Music
    • Novel Discussion Group 2024/5
    • Isaiah 1-23
  • The Classical World
    • Temples up close: a tour of the great sites of Roman religion
    • The Appian Way
    • Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: The City of Rome from 300-800
    • News from Ancient Rome
    • Beyond the columns: a closer look at Roman temples
    • The Jewish War
  • World Archaeology
    • The Lost City of Ugarit
    • Celtic Saints – Between pious legends and archaeology
    • Silkroad Studies: The archaeology of the Sultanate of Rum
    • SILKROAD STUDIES: The People of the Steppes from Scythians to Sarmatians
    • Ancient Mesopotamia
  • Art History
    • Silkroad Studies: The archaeology of the Sultanate of Rum
    • Temples up close: a tour of the great sites of Roman religion
    • Beyond the columns: a closer look at Roman temples
    • News from Ancient Rome
  • Film and Media Studies
  • History other than Ancient History
    • The Calendar- Telling the Story of Time
    • Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: The City of Rome from 300-800
    • SILKROAD STUDIES:   The Turks – from the Mongolian Nomads to Empire Builders
    • Celtic Saints – Between pious legends and archaeology
    • The Appian Way
    • SILKROAD STUDIES: The People of the Steppes from Scythians to Sarmatians
  • Latin
    • Ovid in Pontus – The poems of old age
    • LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION AND PLINY THE ELDER
  • Literature
    • Summer Novel Discussion Group
    • Novel Discussion Group 2024/5
  • Music
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Schubert’s Chamber Music: beyond the quartet
  • Theology and Religious Studies
    • The Calendar- Telling the Story of Time
    • Isaiah 24-39
    • Isaiah 1-23
    • The Jewish War
    • Ancient Mesopotamia
  • The MANCENT conferences
    • 7th MANCENT Roman Army Conference: The Roman Army – what survives?
    • 6th MANCENT Roman Army Conference: Living with the Roman Army
      • ‘It’s this wretched country’: Roman Britain on Screen
    • 5th Roman MANCENT Conference: The Roman army and Mining in Scotland and elsewhere
    • 2017 MANCENT conference: Rivers, Harbours and the Roman Army
    • Producing for the Legion or Production by the Legion?
      • Conference Summaries 24 Sept 2016
    • Roman Gask Project lecture 2020 -Thousand years in Glenesk, the changing life of a Scottish glen.
  • The MANCENT blog
    • 31 Dec 2024: Welcome to a new year and the festival of Janus
    • Blog 30 Sept 24: Why talk about the Silkroad in China?
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Comparing Notes
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Haydn’s String Quartets
    • Roman villas in Gaul and Germany: the homes of the invaders and fashion victims?
    • What has a German writer to do with the Grand Tour
    • Roman Britain on screen
    • MANCENT blog: A Chinese Garden in North Staffordshire
    • Why talk about Silkroad in the Indian Ocean?
    • Thinking about Religion in Roman Britain
    • MANCENT 2023 Programme now out
    • Why study Greek and Roman Myths by Tony Keen
    • Today we are 12 years old!
  • MANCENT Booking form
  • Event Calendar April to July 2025
  • Buy Courses Online
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Summer Term: April to June 2020

Social and Political Issues Discussion Group

In their own time – Five key figures

Apuleius’ Amor and Psyche in Latin.

Learning Latin by Distance Learning

Tales of High Adventure and Magic: Apuleius’ Golden Ass

Learning to Read Roman inscriptions (when you don’t know Latin).

Advanced German Conversation

 

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Upcoming events
Paul's Prison Letters
13 May 2025
10.00-12.00 Paul’s Prison Letters
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Ovid Heroides 9-11
19 May 2025
14.00-15.30: Ovid Heroides 9-11
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Ovid and Latin Prose Composition
20 May 2025
18.00-19.30: Ovid and Prose Composition
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Silkroad Studies: Transport and Travel within China
22 May 2025
4.00-16.00 Silkroad Studies: Transport and Travel
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Rise and Fall of the Roman Villa IV
22 May 2025
19.00-21.00. The Rise and Fall of the Roman Vi
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Our Programme
  • 2025 Summer
    • Temples up close: a tour of the great sites of Roman religion
    • Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: The City of Rome from 300-800
    • The Appian Way
    • Women on the Roman Frontiers
    • The Lost City of Ugarit
    • Celtic Saints – Between pious legends and archaeology
    • SILKROAD STUDIES:   The Turks – from the Mongolian Nomads to Empire Builders
    • Silkroad Studies: The archaeology of the Sultanate of Rum
    • Summer Novel Discussion Group
    • Isaiah 24-39
    • The Calendar- Telling the Story of Time
  • 2025 Spring Term
    • News from Ancient Rome
    • Beyond the columns: a closer look at Roman temples
    • The Jewish War
    • From Celsus to Galen – Roman writers on healers and medication and their archaeology
    • SILKROAD STUDIES: The People of the Steppes from Scythians to Sarmatians
    • Ancient Mesopotamia
    • Ovid in Pontus – The poems of old age
    • LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION AND PLINY THE ELDER
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Beethoven’s ‘middle period’ Chamber Music
    • Novel Discussion Group 2024/5
    • Isaiah 1-23
  • The Classical World
    • Temples up close: a tour of the great sites of Roman religion
    • The Appian Way
    • Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: The City of Rome from 300-800
    • News from Ancient Rome
    • Beyond the columns: a closer look at Roman temples
    • The Jewish War
  • World Archaeology
    • The Lost City of Ugarit
    • Celtic Saints – Between pious legends and archaeology
    • Silkroad Studies: The archaeology of the Sultanate of Rum
    • SILKROAD STUDIES: The People of the Steppes from Scythians to Sarmatians
    • Ancient Mesopotamia
  • Art History
    • Silkroad Studies: The archaeology of the Sultanate of Rum
    • Temples up close: a tour of the great sites of Roman religion
    • Beyond the columns: a closer look at Roman temples
    • News from Ancient Rome
  • Film and Media Studies
  • History other than Ancient History
    • The Calendar- Telling the Story of Time
    • Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: The City of Rome from 300-800
    • SILKROAD STUDIES:   The Turks – from the Mongolian Nomads to Empire Builders
    • Celtic Saints – Between pious legends and archaeology
    • The Appian Way
    • SILKROAD STUDIES: The People of the Steppes from Scythians to Sarmatians
  • Latin
    • Ovid in Pontus – The poems of old age
    • LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION AND PLINY THE ELDER
  • Literature
    • Summer Novel Discussion Group
    • Novel Discussion Group 2024/5
  • Music
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Schubert’s Chamber Music: beyond the quartet
  • Theology and Religious Studies
    • The Calendar- Telling the Story of Time
    • Isaiah 24-39
    • Isaiah 1-23
    • The Jewish War
    • Ancient Mesopotamia
  • The MANCENT conferences
    • 7th MANCENT Roman Army Conference: The Roman Army – what survives?
    • 6th MANCENT Roman Army Conference: Living with the Roman Army
      • ‘It’s this wretched country’: Roman Britain on Screen
    • 5th Roman MANCENT Conference: The Roman army and Mining in Scotland and elsewhere
    • 2017 MANCENT conference: Rivers, Harbours and the Roman Army
    • Producing for the Legion or Production by the Legion?
      • Conference Summaries 24 Sept 2016
    • Roman Gask Project lecture 2020 -Thousand years in Glenesk, the changing life of a Scottish glen.
  • The MANCENT blog
    • 31 Dec 2024: Welcome to a new year and the festival of Janus
    • Blog 30 Sept 24: Why talk about the Silkroad in China?
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Comparing Notes
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Haydn’s String Quartets
    • Roman villas in Gaul and Germany: the homes of the invaders and fashion victims?
    • What has a German writer to do with the Grand Tour
    • Roman Britain on screen
    • MANCENT blog: A Chinese Garden in North Staffordshire
    • Why talk about Silkroad in the Indian Ocean?
    • Thinking about Religion in Roman Britain
    • MANCENT 2023 Programme now out
    • Why study Greek and Roman Myths by Tony Keen
    • Today we are 12 years old!
  • MANCENT Booking form
  • Event Calendar April to July 2025
  • Buy Courses Online
  • My account

How to contact us

For general enquiries
Birgitta Hoffmann
MANCENT Course Director
55 Broadwalk
Wilmslow, Cheshire
SK9 5PL

email: courses@mancent.org.uk
phone:
07377 791562


For bookings or information on individual courses:
Please contact the lecturers listed for the specific courses.

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