Universität Wien

090087 SE Women in Byzantium (2023S)

8.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 9 - Altertumswissenschaften
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 14 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Mittwoch 08.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Mittwoch 15.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Mittwoch 22.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Mittwoch 29.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Mittwoch 19.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Mittwoch 26.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Mittwoch 03.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Mittwoch 10.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Mittwoch 17.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Mittwoch 24.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Mittwoch 31.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Mittwoch 07.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Mittwoch 14.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Mittwoch 21.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Mittwoch 28.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock

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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Content: We will study the different roles of women in Byzantine society as evidenced across a wide range of textual and visual sources. We will contextualize these sources and interrogate them through discourse analysis in order to gain a critical appreciation of the representations of gender and sexuality.

Aims, Methods: Identification of relevant sources; critical analysis of the sources; contextualization through consultation and discussion of additional sources and relevant scholarship.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Contribution to class discussion based on preparatory readings (10%), oral presentation of 20 minutes, incl. handout, powerpoint (30%), written essay of max. 20 pages/6.000 words, incl. footnotes, plus bibliography (subdivided into primary sources, secondary literature) (60%). Due date for the essay: 30 July 2023.
Participation at each class meeting is mandatory. In cases of unavoidable absence, the instructor must be informed ahead of time.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Familiarity with the course content; oral presentation; written essay.

Prüfungsstoff

Course readings and class discussions, students’ own research.

Literatur

Recommended Readings (further readings will be communicated in the course of the semester):
Bibliography on Gender in Byzantium (Dumbarton Oaks)
https://www.doaks.org/research/byzantine/resources/gender-bibliography
Approaches to the Byzantine Family, ed. Leslie Brubaker, Shaun Tougher (Farnham, 2013)
Beaucamp, Joelle, Le statut de la femme à Byzance, 2 vols. (Paris, 1990-1992)
Betancourt, Roland, Byzantine Intersectionality. Sexuality, Gender and Race in the Middle Ages (Princeton, 2020)
Byzantine Women. Varieties of Experience, ed. Lynda Garland (Aldershot, 2006)
Female Founders in Byzantium and Beyond, ed. Lioba Theis, Galina Fingarova, Margaret Mullett, Michael Grünbart (Vienna, Cologne, Weimar, 2014)
Gerstel, Sharon, Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium: Art, Archaeology and Ethnography (New York, 2015)
Herrin, Judith, Unrivalled Influence. Women and Empire in Byzantium (Princeton, 2013)
Holy Women of Byzantium. Ten Saints’ Lives in English Translation, transl. Alice-Mary Talbot (Washington, DC, 1996)
http://www.doaks.org/resources/publications/doaks-online-publications/holy-women-of-byzantium/talb00.pdf
Laiou, Angeliki, ‘The Role of Women in Byzantine Society,’ Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 31/1 (1981), 233-260
Laiou-Thomadaki, Angeliki, Women, Family and Society in Byzantium (Farnham, 2011)
Meyer, Mati, An Obscure Portrait. Imaging Women’s Reality in Byzantine Art (London, 2009)
Melichar, Petra, Empresses of Late Byzantium. Foreign Brides, Mediators and Pious Women (Berlin, 2019)
Questions of Gender in Byzantine Society, ed. Lynda Garland, Bronwen Neil (Farnham, 2013)
Scholz, Cordula, ‘Die Frau in Byzanz—eine typisch europäische Frau?’ Das Mittelalter 6 (2001), 39-50
Talbot, Alice-Mary, Women and Religious Life in Byzantium (Ashgate, 2001)

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Di 07.03.2023 20:48