Universität Wien

090109 PS Gender and the Household in Late Antique Visual Culture (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 9 - Altertumswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle
We 22.05. 09:45-11:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG

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Details

max. 20 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Wednesday 06.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG
Wednesday 13.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG
Wednesday 20.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG
Wednesday 10.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG
Wednesday 17.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG
Wednesday 24.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG
Wednesday 08.05. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG
Wednesday 15.05. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG
Wednesday 29.05. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG
Wednesday 05.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG
Wednesday 12.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG
Wednesday 19.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG
Wednesday 26.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

In Late Antiquity (c. 4th – 6th c. CE), as in the premodern world more broadly, the family and the household were the fundamental organisational units of society. Interactions between husbands and wives, parents and children, and enslaved people and their masters formed the foundations for social hierarchies and relationships. While the family and the household shaped society, gender shaped the family and the household. From childhood to old age, women and men experienced life very differently. Late Antiquity was a time of significant change in many areas of society, including family life, as new Christian ideas about marriage, sex, and power collided with centuries of tradition. In this course, students will explore the late antique family and household through the lens of visual culture. They will examine how different members were depicted and what this can tell us about societal expectations and lived experiences. In particular, the course will focus on gendered differences: between boys and girls, husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, and so on.

Assessment and permitted materials

Students will be assessed through a combination of class participation, oral presentation, and a written seminar paper.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Students must be assessed positively in each of these individual activities in order to pass the course. Missing up to two classes is permitted.
• Regular, active participation in class discussions (20%)
• In-class oral presentation (40%)
• Written seminar paper taking into account discussion after the presentation (40%)

Examination topics

Clear, careful, and thoughtful analysis of a selected topic in the form of an oral presentation and a written paper. Oral presentations will be 20 minutes long, with c.10 minutes of class discussion. Students are expected to make a PowerPoint presentation to accompany their talk and a short handout. Written papers should be at least 10 pages long (including footnotes, but not including images and bibliography).

Reading list

Essential general reading:

Ellison, M. D. (2018). “Secular” Portraits, Identity, and the Christianization of the Roman Household. In: R. M. Jensen and M. D. Ellison eds., The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art. London: Routledge, pp.326-346.

Harper, K. (2012). Marriage and Family. In: S. Fitzgerald Johnson ed., The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.667-714.

Kampen, N. B. (2007). The Family in Late Antique Art. In: L. Larsson Loven ed., Public Roles and Personal Status: Men and Women in Antiquity. Proceedings of the Third Nordic Symposium on Gender and Women’s History in Antiquity, Copenhagen, 3-5 October 2003. Savedalen: Paul Astroms forlag, pp.123-142.

Additional thematic reading:

Alberici, A. L. and Harlow, M. (2007). Age and Innocence: Female Transitions to Adulthood in Late Antiquity. Hesperia Supplements 41: 193-203.

Behling, C. (2011). Kinder des Ostens. Spätantike und frühchristliche Kinderdarstellungen im heutigen Ost- und Südosteuropa. Acta Archaeologica Scientiarum Hungaricae 62, pp.163-173.

Brooten, B. (2015). Early Christian Enslaved Families (first to fourth century). In: C. Laes et. al. eds., Children and Family in Late Antiquity. Life, Death and Interaction. Leuven: Peeters, pp.111-134.

Dunbabin, K. M. D. (2003a). The Waiting Servant in Later Roman Art. American Journal of Philology, 124.3, pp.443-467.

Huskinson, J. (2005). Disappearing children? Children in Roman funerary art of the first to the fourth century AD. In: Mustakallio et al. (eds), Hoping for Continuity. Childhood, Education and Death in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Rome: Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae 33, pp.91–104.

Vikan, G. (1990). Art and Marriage in Early Byzantium. Dumbarton Oaks Papers 44, pp.145-163.

Vuolanto, V. (2016). Parenting in Late Antiquity: Gendered Roles in Ideology and Everyday Life. Patristica Nordica Annuaria 31, pp.33-57.

Warland, R. (1994). Status und Formular in der Repräsentation der spätantiken Führungsschicht. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung, 101, pp.175-202.

Further reading will be provided for individual topics during the course.

Association in the course directory

Anrechenbar: im Fachbereich Frühchristliche Archäologie + Bilder:
im BA: M6, M10, M13;
im EC 596;
im EC 597;

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