FF:DU1366 Byzantium and the West - Course Information
DU1366 Byzantium and the West
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2011
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- each odd Friday 10:50–14:55 K31
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- History of Arts (programme FF, B-HS)
- History of Arts (programme FF, B-OT) (2)
- Course objectives
- The aim of this seminar is to understand the diversity of relations between eastern and western parts of the former Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, and a deconstruction historiographic stereotypes that accompany these relationships.
- Syllabus
- - Historiographical introduction: Byzantium in space and time - Rome and Constantinople - Obelisk of Theodos in Constantinople, Santa Pudenziana in Rome - Saint Demetrios of Thessaloniki, the Madonna della Clemenza in Rome - Santa Maria Foris Portas in Castelseprio, the Paris Psalter - Santa Maria in Torcello, palace chapel in Palermo - Mosaics in Chora in Constantinople, Pietro Cavallini in Rome
- Literature
- required literature
- Klein, Holger, « Eastern objects and Western desires : relics and reliquaries between Byzantium and the West », Dumbarton Oaks papers, 58 (2004(2005), ss. 283-314.
- Weitzmann, Kurt, « Various aspects of Byzantine influence on the Latin countries from the sixth to the twelfth century », Dumbarton Oaks papers, 20 (1966), ss. 1-24.
- Demus, Otto, Byzantine art and the West, London 1970.
- Teaching methods
- theoretical training, oral and written presentations.
- Assessment methods
- oral and written presentations.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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