Byzantium (10 points)
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CH240/340 |
| Clara Staffa Geoghegan |
Semester 2, 2012 Monday 2.00pm — 4.00pm |
This unit will cover Byzantine history commencing with Constantine’s establishment of the city of Constantinople until its fall in 1453. The unit will consider the evolution of Byzantium from the Roman Empire and the ambition of Justinian to revitalize the empire. It will identify and evaluate internal conflicts within Byzantium and the continuing conflict on its borders with particular focus on the implications of the growth of Islam for Byzantium. It will examine the growing estrangement between East and West, including theological misinterpretations and the further mistrust brought about by the western crusades, particularly the capture of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade.
Undergraduate Prerequisites
| second level: | CH140 and CH141 or equivalent |
| third level: | two levels of Church History |
Graduate and Postgraduate Prerequisites (CH340)
Requirements
2 hours per week
Undergraduate Assessment
| second level | two 500 word seminar papers | 2 x 25% |
| one 2,000 word essay | 50% | |
| third level | two 500 word seminar papers | 2 x 25% |
| one 2,500 word essay | 50% |
Graduate and Postgraduate Assessment (CH340)
Equivalent to 4,000 words.
See Coursework Assessment for Graduate and Postgraduate Students.
Bibliography
- Angold, Michael. Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni, 1081–1261. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
- Cormack, Robin, and Maria Vassiliki, eds. Byzantium, 330–1453. London: Royal Academy of Arts Publications; 2008.
- Herrin, Judith. Byzantium:The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire. Princeton, NJ:Princeton University Press, 2008.
- Mango, Cyril, ed. The Oxford History of Byzantium. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Meyendorff, John. Byzantine Theology: Historical Trends and Doctrinal Themes. 2nd ed. London: Mowbrays,1983.
- ———. Rome, Constantinople, Moscow: Historical and Theological Studies. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1996.
- Riley-Smith, Jonathan, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades. Oxford Illustrated Histories. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
- Runciman, Steven. The Eastern Schism: A Study of the Papacy and the Eastern Churches During the XIth and XIIth Centuries. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2005.
- Safran, Linda, ed. Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.
- Treadgold, Warren T. A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.
- Wells, Colin. Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World. New York: Delacorte Press, 2006.