KLMgrB92 Selected Chapters from History of Byzantion

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2023

The course is not taught in Spring 2023

Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Marek Meško, M.A., Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Věra Klontza, Ph.D.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Šibíčková
Supplier department: Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
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
there are 16 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to understand the history of Byzantine Empire The subject matter is divided into four chapters of development.
Syllabus
  • Late Antiquity or Early Byzantium? The problem of continuity or discontinuity of historical development Byzantine „Dark Age“ – transformation of East-Roman society – Extinction, decline or transformation of cities? Slavic expansion to the Balcans. Byzantium and Great Moravia: Cyril and Methodius mission between Constantinople and Rome.
Literature
  • AVENARIUS, Alexander, Růžena DOSTÁLOVÁ, Vladimír FIALA, Věra HROCHOVÁ, Milan LOOS, Oldřich TŮMA and Vladimír VAVŘÍNEK. Dějiny Byzance. Edited by Bohumila Zástěrová. Vydání 1. Praha: Academia, 1992, 529 stran. ISBN 8020004548. info
  • HAVLÍK, Lubomír Emil. Přehledné dějiny Byzance. Vyd. 1. Brno: Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně, 1971, 121 s. info
  • BIDLO, J. Kultura byzantská, její vznik a význam. Praha, 1919. info
  • WESSEL, Kl. Die Kultur von Byzanz. Frankfurt, 1970. info
  • MÜLLER, K. Vznik a sláva byzantské říše. Soumrak byzantské říše. 2 sv. Praha, 1927. info
  • MAIER, Fr.G. Byzanz. Frankfurt, 1973. info
  • ZÁSTĚROVÁ, B. Přehled vývoje a dnešního stavu byzantologie, ČČH 14 (1966), 161-178. 1966. info
  • SCHREINER, P. Byzanz. München, 1994. info
  • KAZHDAN, A.P. Byzanz und seine Kultur. Berlin, 1973. info
  • Vybrané problémy současné byzantologie (sborník s příspěvky R. Dostálové, V. Hrochové, M. Loose a V. Vavřínka). Praha, 1978. info
  • DOSTÁLOVÁ, Růžena. Byzantská vzdělanost. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 1990, 415 s. ISBN 8070210346. info
  • MAZAL, O. Handbuch der Byzantinistik. Graz, 1989. info
  • BROWNING, R. The Byzantine Empire. London, 1980. info
  • AVENARIUS, A. Byzantská kultúra v slovanskom prostredí v VI. - XII. storočí. Bratislava, 1992. info
  • HUSSEY, J. The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire. Oxford, 1986. info
  • OSTROGORSKY, G. Geschichte des byzantinischen Staates. München, 1963. info
  • HUNGER, H. Das Reich der neuen Mitte. Der christliche Geist der byzantinische Kultur. Graz, 1965. info
  • HAUSSIG, H.W. Kulturgeschichte von Byzanz. Stuttgart, 1966. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Oral exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every other week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2013, Spring 2016, Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2025.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2023, recent)
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