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090087 SE Women in Byzantium (2023S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Registration/Deregistration
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 We 01.02.2023 06:00 to Mo 27.02.2023 14:00
- Registration is open from Mo 20.03.2023 06:00 to Th 23.03.2023 14:00
- Deregistration possible until Fr 31.03.2023 23:59
Details
max. 14 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Wednesday 08.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
- Wednesday 15.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
- Wednesday 22.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
- Wednesday 29.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
- Wednesday 19.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
- Wednesday 26.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
- Wednesday 03.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
- Wednesday 10.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
- Wednesday 17.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
- Wednesday 24.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
- Wednesday 31.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
- Wednesday 07.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
- Wednesday 14.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
- Wednesday 21.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
- Wednesday 28.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
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.
Assessment and permitted materials
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.
Participation at each class meeting is mandatory. In cases of unavoidable absence, the instructor must be informed ahead of time.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Familiarity with the course content; oral presentation; written essay.
Examination topics
Course readings and class discussions, students’ own research.
Reading list
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)
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)
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