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The Byzantine Empire: From Justinian to the Fall of Constantinople, 518-1453CE

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Kod przedmiotu: 2900-MK1-BEJFC-KL
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Nazwa przedmiotu: The Byzantine Empire: From Justinian to the Fall of Constantinople, 518-1453CE
Jednostka: Wydział Historii
Grupy: Przedmioty Historii I stopnia, fakultatywne
Przedmioty Historii II stopnia
Przedmioty Historii II stopnia, Doskonalenie kompetencji badacza epok i dziedzin historycznych
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Język prowadzenia: angielski
Rodzaj przedmiotu:

fakultatywne
ogólnouniwersyteckie

Założenia (opisowo):

(tylko po angielsku) All who understand English well enough to follow the lecture are welcome.

Skrócony opis: (tylko po angielsku)

The Byzantine empire was full of paradoxes. Temporally, it straddled Antiquity and the Middle Ages, geographically the central Mediterranean and the Near East, southern and eastern Europe. It was heir to Classical Greek and ancient Roman civilisations and Christian in its religion. It was traditionally viewed as exotic and marginal by western European medievalists and yet it played a significant role in shaping the post-Roman medieval world, influencing forms of kingship and political ideology in the West and spreading Orthodox Christianity and the Cyrillic alphabet in Slavic speaking eastern Europe. This course will introduce students to this late antique and medieval empire, examining textual and material evidence for its wars and political relations with the northern, Islamic, and western Christian worlds, bureaucratic and military infrastructure, political ideology, economy and Orthodox Christian religious culture.

Pełny opis: (tylko po angielsku)

The Byzantine empire was the longest lasting empire in European history, straddling Late Antiquity and the Early and High Middle Ages for more than a millennium. And yet, while it has formed a central part of the Peter Brown-inspired renaissance of late antique studies in recent decades, it plays a more marginal role in medieval studies, which have tended to focus on western Europe. And yet the Byzantine empire emerged from the same late antique Roman Christian world as Latin Christendom and was responsible for transmitting late antique political and cultural influences across wide areas of both eastern and western Europe during the Middle Ages. This course will introduce students to the history of the Byzantine empire, the major academic debates concerning its political ideology, religion, identities, economy, and administrative organisation, and some of the most important historical, artistic and archaeological sources. The first 13 lectures will survey historical events, starting with the Age of Justinian during which the empire reached its largest extent following the conquests of the Gothic and Vandal kingdoms in Italy and Africa, and ending with the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Key developments will include: the fiscal, political and military crises of the later 6th to early 7th c.; the loss of the eastern provinces and the desperate fight for survival against the armies of Sassanid Persia and early Islam in the 7th and 8th c.; the Iconoclastic theological debates and Bulgar wars of the 8th and 9th centuries; the gradual political and economic recovery in the 9th and 10th centuries; the external threats and internal stresses of the 11th c.; the increasing threat from the West during the Crusading era from the end of the 11th c. until the fall of Constantinople to the Latin Christians in 1204; the political fragmentation of the Byzantine world in the 13th c. and 14th c. before and after the re-capture of Constantinople in 1261; and the political demise but cultural flourishing of the Later Byzantine period during the 14th and 15th c. The final 2 lectures will then adopt a thematic approach, examining the political ideology of the Byzantine imperial court, and the modern debates concerning religion and identity in the Byzantine world. Each overview lecture will be followed by 30-45 minutes of discussion during which students will have the opportunity to raise questions and, during the resulting discussions, be introduced in more detail to key debates and sources of evidence not covered in as much detail in the lecture.

Literatura: (tylko po angielsku)

• Cameron A. Byzantine Matters (Princeton NJ, 2020).

• Herrin J. Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire (London, 2007).

• Haldon J. Warfare, State and Society in the Byzantine World, 565-1204 (London, 1999).

• Jeffreys E. ed. The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies (Oxford, 2008).

• Kaldellis A. The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome (Cambridge MA, 2015).

• Mango C. Byzantium: The Empire of the New Rome (New York, 1980).

• Obolensky D. The Byzantine Commonwealth: Eastern Europe, 500-1453 (London, 1971).

• Sarris P. Byzantium: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2015).

• Stephenson P. ed. The Byzantine World (London, 2007).

• Treadgold, W. T. A History of the Byzantine State and Society (Stanford CA, 1997).

• Whittow M. The Making of Orthodox Byzantium, 600-1025 (London, 1996).

Efekty uczenia się: (tylko po angielsku)

At the end of the lecture series, students should have acquired good general knowledge of:

• The main contours of Byzantine history – how the Byzantine state, cultures, and society and economy evolved across time and space.

• The key debates concerning, for example, whether internal structural or external threats caused the political crisis periods of the later 6th-7th, 11th and the final centuries, whether there was such a thing as a ‘Byzantine’ identity, and, if so, whether this was more firmly rooted in a secular Roman or religious Christian past, and from an administrative and economic perspective, the extent to which the Byzantine government exerted considerable political control in a modern sense over its far-flung territories, or whether it relied instead on the loyalty of local elites.

• The main bodies of historical and material evidence which Byzantinists rely upon; and how the patchiness and vagaries of this evidence shape modern academic debates in the field.

Metody i kryteria oceniania: (tylko po angielsku)

Attendance (at least 75%) and one short essay of 1,200 words.

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