Universität Wien

090056 VO Introduction to the Social History of Byzantium (2025S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 9 - Altertumswissenschaften
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Di 03.06. 16:45-18:15 Elise Richter-Saal Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 1

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Sprache: Englisch

Prüfungstermine

Lehrende

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  • Dienstag 04.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Elise Richter-Saal Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 1
  • Dienstag 18.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Elise Richter-Saal Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 1
  • Dienstag 25.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Elise Richter-Saal Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 1
  • Dienstag 01.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Elise Richter-Saal Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 1
  • Dienstag 08.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Elise Richter-Saal Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 1
  • Dienstag 29.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Elise Richter-Saal Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 1
  • Dienstag 06.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Elise Richter-Saal Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 1
  • Dienstag 13.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Elise Richter-Saal Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 1
  • Dienstag 20.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Elise Richter-Saal Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 1
  • Dienstag 27.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Elise Richter-Saal Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 1
  • Dienstag 10.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Elise Richter-Saal Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 1
  • Dienstag 17.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Elise Richter-Saal Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 1

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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

This course serves as an introduction to the social history of Byzantium. Special focus will be laid on the family which constitutes the social core of all societies. In the Byzantine Middle Ages, the family—expanded by slaves and servants—also formed an economic unit, the household (oikos). As a conceptual model, the notions of family and household were also applied to the constitution of larger social entities, such as confraternities, or monasteries. This lecture course (with ample opportunity for questions and discussion) will explore these issues in different locations (cities, countryside) and different periods of the Byzantine millennium.
Three major thematic areas will be examined:
1. The social construction of the individual (childhood and youth, sexuality, women, men, eunuchs, marriage),
2. The household as a social and economic unit,
3. The family and household as models for brotherhoods, the imperial court, and monasteries.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Introduction to fundamental aspects of Byzantine society and relevant sources, while simultaneously providing an introduction to the issues and methodology of medieval social history. Discussion of selected written and non-written sources, along with an overview of historiographical approaches in research.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Basic knowledge of the course content.

Prüfungsstoff

Content of the lectures, suggested readings, independent readings.

Literatur

A Social History of Byzantium, ed. John Haldon (Chichester, 2009)
The Economic History of Byzantium from the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century, ed. A. Laiou (Washington, DC, 2007)
https://www.doaks.org/resources/publications/books/the-economic-history-of-byzantium
Byzanz. Historisch-kulturwissenschaftliches Handbuch, ed. Falko Daim (Stuttgart, 2016)
Approaches to the Byzantine Family, ed. L. Brubaker, S. Tougher (London, 2016)
Herlihy, D., Medieval Households (Cambridge, Mass., 1985)
Becoming Byzantine: Children and Childhood in Byzantium, ed. A. Papaconstantinou, A.-M. Talbot (Washington, DC, 2009)
Emotions and Gender in Byzantium, ed. S. Constantinou, M. Meyer (Palgrave, 2019)
Managing Emotions in Byzantium: Passions, Affects and Imaginings, ed. M. Mullett, S. Ashbrook (Washington, DC, 2023)
Ringrose, K. M., The Perfect Servant (Chicago, 2003)
Tougher, S., The Euchuch in Byzantine History and Society (London, 2008)
Women, Men and Eunuchs: Gender in Byzantium, ed. Liz James (London und New York, 1997)
Betancourt, R., Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages (Princeton, 2020)
Gerstel, S., Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium: Art, Archaeology and Ethnography (Cambridge, 2015)
Kondyli, F., Rural Communities in Late Byzantium: Resilience and Vulnerability in the Northern Aegean (Cambridge, 2022)
Additional literature will be communicated in the course of the semester.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Di 04.03.2025 12:06