070260 GR Guided Reading - Geographical Knowledge and Imagination in Medieval Eurasia (2019S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Fr 01.02.2019 09:00 to Mo 18.02.2019 12:00
- Registration is open from Fr 22.02.2019 09:00 to Th 28.02.2019 12:00
- Deregistration possible until Su 31.03.2019 23:59
Details
max. 25 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Thursday
07.03.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 9, Währinger Straße 29 2.OG
Thursday
14.03.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 9, Währinger Straße 29 2.OG
Thursday
21.03.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 9, Währinger Straße 29 2.OG
Thursday
28.03.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 9, Währinger Straße 29 2.OG
Thursday
04.04.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 9, Währinger Straße 29 2.OG
Thursday
11.04.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 9, Währinger Straße 29 2.OG
Thursday
02.05.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 9, Währinger Straße 29 2.OG
Thursday
09.05.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 9, Währinger Straße 29 2.OG
Thursday
16.05.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 9, Währinger Straße 29 2.OG
Thursday
23.05.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 9, Währinger Straße 29 2.OG
Thursday
13.06.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 6, Währinger Straße 29 1.OG
Thursday
13.06.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 6, Währinger Straße 29 1.OG
Seminarraum 9, Währinger Straße 29 2.OG
Seminarraum 9, Währinger Straße 29 2.OG
Thursday
27.06.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 9, Währinger Straße 29 2.OG
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Students will be assessed on the basis of their attendance and contribution to discussion (40%), short written assignments (40%) and one short presentation on a specific medieval map (20%). There will be no final examination.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
A very good knowledge of English is a prerequisite.
Examination topics
Reading list
Primary and secondary literature as well as visual examples of medieval cartography will be distributed via moodle.
Association in the course directory
Epochen: Antike, Mittelalter
Aspekte/Räume: Globalgeschichte, Historisch-kulturwiss. Europaforschung, Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Aspekte/Räume: Globalgeschichte, Historisch-kulturwiss. Europaforschung, Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Last modified: Mo 07.09.2020 15:30
First, the class will analyse the scientific tradition of medieval geography, from the importance of Late Antique compendia and handbooks in the teaching of geography in early medieval Europe to the influence of Ptolemy’s Geography in both the establishment of an Islamic worldview and the development of cartography in the Late Middle Ages.
The administrative and political context of geography will be the next subject to be discussed. Fiscal and military needs, as well as imperial discourse, played a central role in the diffusion of geography and cartography in the Late Roman Empire, the Abbasid Caliphate and during the Song dynasty in China.
As the third main subject, the class will analyse the religious meanings of representing space in early medieval Europe and Byzantium, focusing on both the T-O map tradition and the Christian Topography of Cosmas Indicopleustes.
Finally, drawing on selected examples of pilgrimage narratives the last lessons will focus on the influence biblical exegesis had on reshaping the sense of place of the ‘centre,’ intended both geographically and spiritually, and of the 'periphery.'