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Fantasy Literature and the Middle Ages
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en3112
Module code: EN3112 George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and the HBO series Game of Thrones have recently inspired more people than ever before to read and watch fantasy inspired by the Middle Ages. Martin builds on (and in reaction to) J. R. R.
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The Medieval Mediterranean World
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ar2043
Module code: AR2043 This module will explore key developments in the history and archaeology of the Mediterranean world, with a broad time-frame of c.AD500 to AD1500.
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Strategy
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/mk2108
Module code: MK2108 You could say that business is like a game of chess. Business leaders need to think many moves ahead, and the wrong call can lead to disaster.
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The Medieval Mediterranean World
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar2043
Module code: AR2043 This module will explore key developments in the history and archaeology of the Mediterranean world, with a broad time-frame of c.AD500 to AD1500.
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Strategic Management
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/mk2108
Module code: MK2108 You could say that business is like a game of chess. Business leaders need to think many moves ahead, and the wrong call can lead to disaster.
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Gender, Race and War
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/pl3145
Module code: PL3145 How does war come to be thought of as virtuous, just or humanitarian? The post-Cold War era has been defined by a renaissance in war.
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Research explores how destroyed star rains onto black hole
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/destroyed-star-rains-onto-black-hole-winds-blow-it-back
New details about what happens when a black hole tears apart a star have been gathered by a trio of orbiting X-ray telescopes giving scientists, including Leicester astronomers, an excellent opportunity to understand the extreme environment around a black hole.
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Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys is the god of forensic science says bestselling crime author in new video
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/patricia-cornwell-describes-impact-inventor-of-genetic-fingerprinting-has-had-on-her-career
Bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell has paid tribute to the University of Leicester Professor who invented the technique of genetic fingerprinting during her visit to De Montfort Hall in Leicester to give a talk as part of the University Literary Leicester festival...
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New advance announced in fight against Alzheimers and Parkinsons
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/new-advance-announced-in-fight-against-alzheimers-and-parkinsons
A five-year study by an international team led by Leicester has found a way of ‘reversing’ symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s – using fruit flies as test subjects.
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Can Santa Claus see your house from his sleigh?
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/december/20-christmas-lights
Millions of children across the world will be looking up at the night sky on Christmas Eve to get a glimpse of Santa Claus and his reindeer – but what if he could see your house from the sky? Students at the University of Leicester may have found the answer, after calculating...