Universität Wien

090073 VO Byzantium and the Caucasus (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 9 - Altertumswissenschaften
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Language: German, English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Friday 10.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Friday 17.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Friday 24.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Friday 31.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Friday 21.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Friday 28.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Friday 05.05. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Friday 12.05. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Friday 19.05. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Friday 26.05. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Friday 02.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Friday 09.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Friday 16.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Friday 23.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock

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Aims, contents and method of the course

The course will introduce the historical relations between Byzantium and the Armenians through analysis of their mutual cultural and intellectual entanglements. In this respect, the course will expand on the political and social background and circumstances that undergirded the inception of confessional confrontations between the Byzantines and the three main Christian ethnic groups of the south-Caucasian region, and namely the Armenians, the Georgians and the Albanians, on the one hand, and among the south-Caucasian Christian people, on the other hand, in the period between the fifth and the ninth centuries. Attention will be payed to the development of mutual contacts between the Greeks and Armenian culture in varied fields of human knowledge and experience, e.g., sciences, rhetorics, theology, philosophy, and architecture, through the analysis of the main Armenian and Greek sources, as well as of their respective research history. Georgian sources will be also included, especially when introducing the problem of the schism between the Armenian and the Georgian churches. The course aims to provide an overview of the cultural and social intercourses of the Armenians with Byzantium, as well as of the cultural and politico-religious connections among the Christian south-Caucasian people in the second half of the first millennium.

Assessment and permitted materials

No preliminary knowledge is required. You are expected to participate in the course through discussion and take-home work that will include an essay or an article relying to the mandatory readings. One is unlikely to be able to get a passing grade without these.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Final exam including 10 questions related both to the topics treated in the course and the mandatory readings posted on Moodle, and a text to be interpreted.
Grading scale: 100-88 = 1; 87-75: 2; 74-63: 3; 62-51: 4; 50-0: 5)

Examination topics

Reading list

It will be announced during the lessons and then posted on Moodle

Association in the course directory

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