DU2039 Seminar: Experiencing Death and Resurrection

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2020
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
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
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each odd Thursday 9:00–12:40 VP
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The goal of this interactive seminar is to investigate the role of material, visual and ritual cultures into the christianization of the Mediterranean. Working on key-examples from the 3rd to the 6th century will be analyzed: 1) the spaces; 2) the ritual; 3) the decoration, and 4) the objects involved into the process of christianization. Students will thus involved into a trans-disciplinary reflection, with the possibility to further develop their skills in presentation, discussion and writing. Furthermore, performative actions will be part of this seminars/experiences. Participants will try to reconstruct - with their own bodies - the spaces of initiation as well as the ritual movements of the neophytes.
Learning outcomes
The student will be able to: - understand the relation between space, images and initiatory rituals
- discuss the performative dimension of visual culture
- know key monuments form the 3rd to the 6th c. on a Mediterranean level
Syllabus
  • Introduction: from space to experience
  • Initiatory rituals and the united Mediterranean
  • Doura Europos and the private/Public Space
  • Naples and the discovery of the monumental Art
  • Rome and the Apostolic Tradition at the Lateran
  • Sound, images and space at Santa Sabina, Rome
  • Glittering Images and the Orthodox Baptistery in Ravenna
  • Arian rituals in Ravenna?
  • Lateral naves as a space of Initiation
Literature
  • CYRIL. Catechesi prebattesimali e Mistagogiche. Edited by Victor Saxer, Translated by Gabriella Maestri. 5a edizione. Milano: Paoline, 2016, 665 stran. ISBN 9788831509942. info
  • FOLETTI, Ivan and Manuela GIANADREA. Zona liminare. Il nartece di Santa Sabina a Roma, la sua porta e l’iniziazione cristiana (Liminal Zone. The Narthex of Santa Sabina in Rome, it's Doors and the Christian Initiation). Roma: Viella, 2015, 280 pp. Studia Artium Mediaevalium Brunensia. ISBN 978-88-6728-354-5. info
  • SAPKOWSKI, Andrzej. Baptism of fire. Translated by David French. London: Gollancz, 2014, 343 stran. ISBN 9780575090972. info
  • BRANDT, Olle. Battisteri oltre la pianta : gli alzati di nove battisteri paleocristiani in Italia. Città del Vaticano: Pontificio istituto di archeologia cristiana, 2012, 508 stran. ISBN 9788885991545. info
  • Baptism in early Byzantine Palestine, 325-451. Edited by Juliette Day. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2009, 44 p. ISBN 9781607243939. info
  • FERGUSON, Everett. Baptism in the early church : history, theology, and liturgy in the first five centuries. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans publishing company, 2009, xxii, 953. ISBN 9780802871084. info
  • FOLETTI, Ivan and Serena ROMANO. Fons Vitae. Baptisteres et rites d'initiation (IIe – VIe siecle) (Fons Vitae. Baptisteries and initiation rites (second - sixth century)). Řím: Viella, 2009, 176 pp. ISBN 978-88-8334-364-3. info
  • Tracing the Bridegroom in Durathe bridal initiation service of the Dura-Europos Christian baptistery as early evidence of the use of images in Christian and Byzantine worship. Edited by Gerasimos P. Pagoulatos. 1st Gorgias Press ed. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2008, xxii, 185. ISBN 1593337388. info
  • Baptism on account of the dead (1 Cor:15:29)an act of faith in the resurrection. Edited by Michael F. Hull. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005, xv, 327 p. ISBN 1589831772. info
  • DAY, Juliette. Proclus on Baptism in Constantinople. Norwich: SCM - Canterbury Press Ltd, 2005, 48 stran. ISBN 1853116882. info
  • Essays in early eastern initiation. Edited by Paul F. Bradshaw. Bramcote: Grove Books, 1988, 43 s. ISBN 1851740996. info
  • SAXER, Victor. Les rites de l'initiation chrétienne du IIe au VIe siècle : esquisse historique et signification d'après leurs principaux témoins. 1a ed. Spoleto: Centro italiano di studi sull'alto Medioevo, 1988, 698 s. ISBN 8879883569. info
Teaching methods
Interactive discussions, oral presentation, written essay
Assessment methods
Evaluation of the oral the presentation and the written essay
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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